This paper presents a multiple case research concerning success factors and issues of mobile field service implementations. Based on Eisenhardt’s explorative research design, five successful mobile technology implementations are compared and analysed. Important aspects of the implementation strategy and the used technology are examined and discussed. The results indicate that the success of mob...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: empirically validate a modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model by adding an “e-learning motivation” construct in the South American context; try to determine the role of e-learning motivation in the use and adoption of e-learning systems and conversely the effect of technology on students’ e-learning motivation; and to...

This paper explores matching with both search and information frictions. Specifically, everyone observes only a noisy signal of the true type of any potential mate. In this context, matching decisions must incorporate not only information about a partner’s attribute conveyed by the noisy signal, but also—as in the winner’s curse in auction theory—information about a partner’s type contained in ...

Although the theory of evolution is more than 150 years old, a substantial proportion of the world population does not mention it when explaining the origin of human beings. The usual alternative conception is offered by creationism, one of the main obstacles to full acceptance of evolution in many countries. National polls have demonstrated that schooling and religiosity are negatively correla...

Two of the greatest obstacles to the implementation of the standardized electronic medical record are physician and staff acceptance and the development of a complete standardized medical vocabulary. Physicians have found the familiar desktop computer environment cumbersome in the examination room and the coding and hierarchic structure of existing vocabulary inadequate. The author recommends t...

Nowadays, robots often operate in environments that they share with humans. The ability to act similar to humans is an important prerequisite for the social acceptance of robots. In this paper, we consider the problem of navigation in populated environments. We present a path planning algorithm that enables robots to move efficiently and smoothly with groups of people by selecting those individ...

The increasing potential to interconnect and combine the computational power of devices with different capabilities and purposes leads to new security issues. While security is nowadays defined as the possibility to prevent “negative things from happening”, security of the future focuses on the potential of new vulnerabilities in software being exploited due to the increased exchange of mobile ...