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Despite substantial support for the importance of routine progress monitoring (RPM) as part of evidence-based practice, few providers utilize measurement-based care. This study sought to identify the relative importance of facilitation strategies viewed as most helpful for increasing intention to use RPM among 388 ethnically diverse community therapists serving children and families. Four types of facilitation strategies were examined: language/interpretability, automation, staffing/access, and requirements. Mixed analyses of variance found that therapists' reported intentions to use RPM were more influenced by strategies of automating assessment administration, provision of clerical assistance, and agency requirements than by making linguistically appropriate measures available. However, the importance of strategies differed depending on therapist race/ethnicity and current RPM use. Language/interpretability of RPM assessments was less emphasized for non-Hispanic White therapists and therapists who have not yet or only minimally adopted RPM compared with ethnic minority therapists and therapists who regularly use RPM, respectively. Furthermore, therapists who were not current RPM users emphasized automation more than staffing/access. Results may inform prioritization of implementation facilitation strategies for agencies to encourage RPM. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Pandemic Covid-19 has resulted in disruption in various industry and business sectors. People spend more time at home than they do outside. People who like movies during this time can enjoy the cinema. However, during the covid-19 pandemic, it must be done online to follow strictly regulated restrictions on community activities to avoid the uncontrolled spread of the virus. As a result, streaming platforms with the advancement of internet technology are increasingly playing a role in providing online services for movie fans. This study investigated the effects of perceived ease of use, usefulness, enjoyment, and intention to use online platforms on behavioral intention in online movies during the Covid 19 pandemic. The questionnaires were distributed by sending google form links to respondents who have a streaming platform subscription in Indonesia. As many as 772 questionnaires were filled out completely and could be processed. Data analysis was done by using partial least squares with Smart PLS software. The results have shown that eight proposed hypotheses have been supported in this study. Perceived ease of use positively affects the perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, and intention to watch movies online. Furthermore, perceived usefulness affects perceived enjoyment and intention to watch movies online. Perceived enjoyment influences intention to use and behavioral intention. Finally, intention to use online platforms influences behavioral intention. This research contributes in theory to the technology acceptance model and provides film industry practitioners with insight into enhancing customer behavioral intention in the pandemic era.

Today, voice assistants are used in many different situations and contexts, ranging from home assistants such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to co-pilots in cars and service agents in telephone hotlines. There is a large body of literature on the intention to use of this technology. Many of these works are focused on aspects of usability of the voice assistant and based on the technology acceptance model and its further developments (e.g., UTAUT; Venkatesh et al., 2003). Other models, such as the social robots acceptance model (SRAM), extend such models attempting to explain the intention to use voice assistants to include social and relational factors (Fernandes & Oliveira, 2021; Wirtz et al., 2018). Still others add factors of (data) security (e.g., Buteau & Lee, 2021; McLean & Osei-Frimpong, 2019). Overall, it must be concluded that a variety of different predictors are studied in the context of voice assistants (Ling et al., 2021) but that there is some uncertainty about which predictors might be particularly important in which study contexts (e.g., Canziani & MacSween, 2021; Malodia et al., 2021; Pal et al., 2018; Yang & Lee, 2019) and to what extent the fit between voice assistant, situation and individual is of importance (Braun et al., 2019). Based on the aforementioned observations, I derive two broad research questions: 1. To what extent is the intention to use and acceptance of voice assistants prevalent in society? How does this change with regard to various moderators, for example from the areas of (a) socio-demographics (e.g., age, experience), (b) methodology (e.g., study design) or (c) environment (e.g., task context)? 2. As how important for the prediction of the intention to use and acceptance of voice assistants can different predictor (groups) be considered (i.e., variance explanations)? How does this prediction strength change with regard to various moderators, for example from the areas of (a) socio-demography (e.g., age, experience), (b) methodology (e.g., study design) or (c) environment (e.g., task context)? To approach answers for these questions, I will conduct a meta-analysis on the acceptance of voice assistants. The aim is not necessarily to be able to formulate exhaustive answers to the research questions, but to provide initial insights from the current state of the literature. Furthermore, numerous different variables were collected, but only a fraction of them will be able to be analysed in this thesis. The meta-analysis will be conducted for the predictor dimensions "Utilitarian", "Hedonic", "Relational", "Social Perception", "Social Influence", "Privacy" and "Security" and with the moderators "type of sample", "experience", "type of interaction" and "mean age". References: - Braun, M., Mainz, A., Chadowitz, R., Pfleging, B., & Alt, F. (2019). At your service: Designing voice assistant personalities to improve automotive user interfaces a real world driving study. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300270 - Buteau, E., & Lee, J. (2021). Hey Alexa, why do we use voice assistants? The driving factors of voice assistant technology use. Communication Research Reports, 38(5), 336–345. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.1980380 - Canziani, B., & MacSween, S. (2021). Consumer acceptance of voice-activated smart home devices for product information seeking and online ordering. Computers in Human Behavior, 119(January 2020), 106714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106714 - Fernandes, T., & Oliveira, E. (2021). Understanding consumers’ acceptance of automated technologies in service encounters: Drivers of digital voice assistants adoption. Journal of Business Research, 122(January 2020), 180–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.058 - Malodia, S., Islam, N., Kaur, P., & Dhir, A. (2021). Why Do People Use Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Voice Assistants? IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, PP, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2021.3117884 - McLean, G., & Osei-Frimpong, K. (2019). Hey Alexa … examine the variables influencing the use of artificial intelligent in-home voice assistants. Computers in Human Behavior, 99, 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.009 - Pal, D., Funilkul, S., Charoenkitkarn, N., & Kanthamanon, P. (2018). Internet-of-Things and Smart Homes for Elderly Healthcare: An End User Perspective. 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Objective This study aimed to develop predictive models of three aspects of psychotherapists' acceptance of telepsychotherapy (TPT) during the COVID-19 pandemic; attitudes towards TPT technology, concerns about using TPT technology and intention to use TPT technology in the future. Method Therapists (N = 795) responded to a survey about their TPT experiences during the pandemic, including quality of the therapeutic relationship, professional self-doubt, vicarious trauma, and TPT acceptance. Regression decision trees machine learning analyses were used to build prediction models for each of three aspects of TPT acceptance in a training subset of the data, and subsequently tested in the remaining subset of the total sample. Results Attitudes toward TPT were most positive for therapists who reported a neutral or strong online working alliance with their patients, especially if they experienced little professional self-doubt and were younger than 40 years old. Therapists who were most concerned about TPT, were those who reported higher levels of professional self-doubt, particularly if they also reported vicarious trauma experiences. Therapists who reported low working alliance with their patients were least likely to use TPT in the future. Performance metrics for the decision trees indicated that these three models held up well in an out-of-sample dataset. Conclusions Therapists' professional self-doubt and the quality of their working alliance with their online patients appear to be the most pertinent factors associated with therapists' acceptance of TPT technology during COVID-19, and should be addressed in future training and research.

Child corporal punishment (CP) is associated with child physical abuse, which is a public health problem in the United States. Informed by the integrative model of behavioral prediction, this study surveyed low-income Black, Hispanic, and White parents who had children younger than 6 years old ( N = 260) to identify major risk factors that determined intention to use CP to discipline children. Structural equation modeling revealed that attitudes, descriptive norms, and perceived efficacy of alternative discipline strategies were associated with intention to use CP. Additionally, parents’ childhood CP frequency and past use of CP with their own children were influential distal variables that indirectly predicted CP intention. Results indicated the utility of the model in this behavioral context. Communication intervention programs targeting low-income parents should leverage perceived norms, perceived efficacy of alternative discipline strategies, and attitudes to change CP behavior.

Purpose Social media sites are one of the vital technological developments of WEB 2.0. This study aims to emphasize on building an empirical model to investigate the impending determinants of users’ intention to use social media sites in higher education. Depending on the existing theories such as the social media acceptance model, e-learning acceptance model, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology and existing literature, determinants such as “performance,” “communication functionality” and “self” have been identified to test. Further, the mediation effect of “peer influence” on the relationship has also been tested. Design/methodology/approach A total of 310 students of different private and public Indian institutions have participated in an online survey. Exploratory factor analysis and multiple linear regression analysis are performed and results were analyzed. Findings The results of this study demonstrated substantial evidence of the impact of performance, communication functionality and self on the intention to use social media in higher education. The mediation of peer influence has also been seen between all the relations. Originality/value An empirical model of intention to use social media in higher education is built. The median of peer influence is tested.

The technology-driven era has encouraged Malaysians to use e-Wallet rather than paper money in their daily transactions. Numerous e-Wallet applications have been developed, such as GrabPay, Touch 'n Go eWallet, and Boost. Erstwhile, Malaysians perceived that using e-Wallets is troublesome and worthless. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has reframed the buyers' perceptions otherwise. This study investigates the impact of Covid-19 on consumer behavior towards the intention to use e-Wallet in Malaysia. A sample of 100 Malaysians has voluntarily participated in this survey. Data were assembled through an electronic survey questionnaire. Contrary to popular belief, the findings depicted that the behavioral intention to use e-Wallets among Malaysians had further accelerated due to the convenience perceptions, facilitating conditions, and perceived safety.

PurposeThe purpose of the study was (1) to examine the motivational composites determining consumers' continued intention to use digital ticketing via self-service technology (SST) by integrating service satisfaction and (2) to ascertain the differences between consumers according to their psychological discomfort toward technology.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using a structured questionnaire, and a total of 323 were included in the analysis. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was utilized to test motivational determinants of digital ticketing. In addition, permutation-based multi-group analysis was performed to investigate the differences between consumers with high and low technology discomfort.FindingsBoth intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are positive predictors of continued intention to use digital ticketing, but only intrinsic motivation has a positive impact on continued intention through service satisfaction. Moreover, the relationship between intrinsic motivation, service satisfaction and continued intention was stronger for consumers with high psychological discomfort than those with low psychological discomfort.Originality/valueGiven the conspicuous characteristics of the digital ticketing process for sporting events, the insights gained from the study may be of assistance to researchers and practitioners in understanding sport consumers' ticket consumption behavior and the determinants of SST usage.

Ensuring access to ongoing exercise programs for older adults with degenerative conditions is a challenge for allied health professionals. E-health technologies can help address this challenge. However, user acceptance is a critical determinant of their effectiveness. This study identified features influencing the willingness of older adults to use exercise software. It focused on user-friendliness, engagement, and user needs. Feedback was gathered via focus groups with thematic analysis used to analyse data. While participants perceived the software as user-friendly and engaging, intention to use the application was strongly influenced by perceptions about whether it met individual needs. While participants agreed that the software did provide a means for meeting their exercise needs, many identified on-the-spot expert support, safety, and social contact as being equally, if not more important than exercise. This study reinforces that well-designed, user-friendly applications will not necessarily engage and motivate users if they do not address user-prioritised needs.

The study's primary purpose is to explore the factors affecting the students' intention to use e-learning systems in the COVID pandemic. The model of the “Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology” (UTAUT) was used as a theoretical underpinning. The Independent variables include “performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition,” and the dependent variable is the intention to use e-learning systems. The quantitative data were collected from the postgraduate and undergraduate students of the public universities of Lahore. A total of n=411 students were approached, out of which the responses of only 399 were considered valid and were used for Multiple linear regression through SPSS 25. It was a cross-sectional study. It was found that almost all constructs of the model have a significant positive impact on intention to use e-learning systems. The study's main contribution is exposing the factors that affect the acceptance and use of e-learning systems. This study has several policy implications for policy experts of higher education”.

Despite their young age, Generation Z has high awareness and experience of using e-wallets, otherwise known as digital wallets. However, research on users’ behaviours is often conducted in the context of the older Millennial generation, which has many different characteristics and behaviours in their use of the new technical e-wallet. This research aims to examine how technical barriers and promoting factors impact Generation Z’s intention to adopt an e-wallet service to hold their money and make frictionless payments. Based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), this study examines 170 Generation Z students who were born between 1995 and 2005. The results show that the relationship between promoting factors and intention to use the e-wallet has been mediated by perceived usefulness, while the barrier factor has a direct influence on intention to use.

Although e-learning has been studied in different contexts, the intention to use e-learning during the Corona virus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has yet to be explored. This study extends the technology ...

Automated vehicles (AVs) have garnered increasing attention since they have the potential to dramatically reshape our lives in the near future. At the same time, people are concerned about various risks associated with the new technologies. Thus, people’s attitudes toward AVs pose a major challenge to the wider adoption of them. Previous studies examined the effect of benefit/risk perception on people’s acceptance of AVs, but they did not address the multidimensionality of benefit/risk perception. We conducted a survey (n = 840) to reveal the underlying dimensions of how people construe the benefits and risks of conditionally/fully automated vehicles. Our results showed that there were two dimensions underlying benefit perception (i.e., the perception that AVs would increase convenience and reduce harm) and three dimensions underlying risk perception (i.e., the perception of risk to physical safety and comfort, cybersecurity, and ease of use). The perception that AVs would reduce harm positively impacted people’s intention to use both fully automated vehicles and conditionally automated vehicles. The perception that AVs would increase convenience and the perception that AVs would pose a risk to ease of use had a positive and negative effect, respectively, on intention to use fully automated vehicles. This study makes theoretical contributions by questioning the assumption that benefit/risk perception is a one-dimensional factor that impacts people’s acceptance of AVs. This study also has practical implications as it suggests an effective method for automobile manufacturers and policymakers to communicate with the public regarding the new technologies and diffuse them safely.

PurposeBooming mobile shopping has resulted in an increase use of m-payment. Although m-payment is still in its infancy in Thailand, it has started to affect the daily lives of Thai people. This study aims to understand the role of perceive risks in influencing millennials' intention to use m-payment for mobile shopping.Design/methodology/approachThe sample covers 250 millennials in Bangkok who were surveyed between February to May 2019. Purposive sampling and convenient sampling were applied to collect data. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was applied for statistical analysis. Further, mediation effect of attitude was studied.FindingsThe results showed that only perceived time risk significantly but negatively affect millennials' attitude towards using m-payment. Moreover, mediation test confirms that the relationship between perceived time risk and intention to use m-payment is mediated by attitude.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, limited number of respondents cannot be a representative of millennials as a whole. Second, the study is limited to a general study, in which the results of m-payment might not be effectual to explain other scenarios (e.g. offline setting) and the market situation in another cultural context.Practical implicationsIt is important that business practitioners should formulate less complicated system under the most decent transaction time to elicit positive attitude towards m-payment. Also, message should emphasize on the time being saved and simplicity of the m-payment.Originality/valueSince the study of how perceived risks influence millennials intention to m-payment remains insufficient in Southeast Asian context especially in Thailand, this paper contributes to the updating of empirical findings to the existing literatures.

Purpose This paper aims to focus on the intention to use of the Backstage game by teachers delivering entrepreneurship course at Tunisian public universities. A research model was developed based on a literature review of the variables that would affect the intention to use this game. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by survey questionnaires, and a partial least square-structural equation model approach was adopted to analyze these data. Overall, the whole model was able to account for 61.3% of variance in the construct intention to use. Findings Results showed the relevance of both perceived behavioral control and teaching experience as the main determinants of the intention to use Backstage game. Positive and significant linkages were also found among perceived behavioral control, social influence and perceived ease of use. Moreover, it was found that perceived ease of use and social influence are significant determinants of perceived usefulness. Perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment had significant effects on attitude towards intention to use this game. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research represents the first empirical study to investigate among Tunisian university teachers their intention to use a serious game technology dedicated to making the entrepreneurship course more attractive.

Payment instruments are part of technological developments. The existence of this development is utilized by finance companies such as peer-to-peer lending technology. Peer-to-peer lending in Indonesia continues to increase, one of the products of peer-to-peer lending companies is SPayLater which is a product of Shopee Indonesia and PT. Lentera Dana. This study provides an overview of the effect of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived compatibility towards attitude toward using and perceived cost, subjective norm, personal innovativeness on intention to use. This study uses a quantitative method by distributing 250 online questionnaires to Shopee consumers. Data analysis was carried out using SEM and assisted by PLS 3 software. The results of this study indicate that perceived ease of use does not affect attitude toward using SPayLater payment system, perceived cost and personal innovativeness do not affect intention to use the SPayLater payment system, while perceived usefulness, perceived compatibility, attitude toward using and subjective norm affect the intention to use the SPayLater payment system.

The paper aims to examine the critical success factors that influence the attitude of health consumers and their intention to use the national health portal (MyHEALTH Portal). The study was constructed from two behavioral models; Diffusion of Innovation and Theory of Reasoned Action. It utilized an online survey hosted on the official portal website with a convenience sampling technique of 223 respondents. Results showed complexity did not significantly contribute towards attitude, while trialability and relative advantage showed significant contributions. Meanwhile, attitude influenced health consumers' intention to use the portal, while subjective norms indicated otherwise. Keywords: Diffusion; socio-cognitive; health portal, health consumer eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i17.2809

COVID-19 pandemic mandates the transformation of the traditional healthcare delivery model from facility-based to virtual care worldwide. The use of technology in delivering health care has always been debated and faces challenges as patients as well as providers are often resistive to change. To date, studies focusing on one’s intention to use technology have gained significant research attention. Using the Technology Adoption Model as a research framework, a sample of 336 individuals within the age group of 18-70 years were surveyed via online to understand their intention to use telemedicine. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings suggest that perceived ease of use is a significant determinant of one’s intention to use telemedicine vis-à-vis its effect on perceived usefulness and attitude towards telemedicine use. The attitude towards telemedicine is significantly affected by privacy concerns and outcome beliefs. Our study results have implications for health policymakers and others when implementing telemedicine for today’s health care delivery.

The educational transformation of flipped classroom continues to be the important approach to increasing students’ readiness for flipped learning. To successfully implement the flipped classroom, students’ readiness to use the materials delivered to them in the pre-class session and parent-school involvement should be part of the process to improve this student-centered learning approach. However, little is known concerning the assessment of students’ readiness to learn through the WBI in a flipped classroom and the role of parent-school involvement in student-centered learning approach. Hence, this study aims to extend the UTAUT model by considering the experience expectancy, parent-school involvement, perceived behaviour control and perceived self-efficacy factors to investigate high school students’ acceptance of WBI for flipped classroom (FC) approach. A total of 320 senior high school students in English Literature class were selected for the study using structured equation modelling to analyse the survey questionnaire data. The results revealed that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, parent-school involvement, perceived self-efficacy and experience expectancy have positive influence on students’ behavioural intention to use WBI. Also, this current study identified that, the perceived behavioral control has an insignificant effect on students’ behavioral intention to use WBI for FC approach. Detailed results and educational implications are discussed.

The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the influence of subjective norms on the intention to use electronic parking, to find out and analyze the influence of attitudes toward intention to use electronic parking and to determine and analyze the effect of perceived behavioural control on the intention to use electronic parking. The approach used in this research is a quantitative approach. The data used are primary data with the questions that are asked in the online questionnaire, which is distributed to the population of Surabaya city residents in 2020. Respondents obtained were as many as 60 people, consisting of 27 men and 33 women. The sampling technique uses accidental sampling technique. The analysis technique used in this research is quantitative data analysis with a multiple linear regression statistical approach. In processing data, research uses warpPLS 6.0 software. The findings show that: (1) Subjective norms have a significant influence on the intention to use electronic parking (? = 0,271; p-value = 0,012). (2) Attitudes have a significant influence on the intention to use electronic parking (?= 0,293; p-value = 0,007). (3) Perceived Behavioral Control has a significant influence on the intention to use electronic parking (?= 0,503; p-value < 0,001).

This study examines the antecedents of the intention to use m-payment applications for lower-income urban users. Using the unique socioeconomic stratification system of Colombia, this is the first ...

This research studies the motivation of customers to choose the QR code as a payment tool by developing an integrated model based on UTAUT 424 valid responses were collected from diversified socio-economic backgrounds to validate the proposed framework. Compared with the original UTAUT model, the new one integrates ‘perceived security’, ‘perceived benefits’ and excludes ‘social influence’ to provide more comprehensive and consistent guidance. PLS-SEM technique was performed as in the data analysis process using SmartPLS. Our study concluded that seven of nine hypotheses are supported by the use of PLS-SEM technique. Customers' intention (R2=0.87) to use QR code as the payment tool is jointly contributed by their attitude, perceived usefulness, and subjective norms toward using QR code as the payment method. The formation of customers' attitudes (R2=0.79) towards using QR code is affected by their perceived usefulness, perceived benefits, and subjective norms. Discussion and strategies for the third parties of QR payment providers and future research directions are also presented.

Primary school teachers may lack the competencies to create and deliver lessons using ICT equipments. As a result, schools possess large quantities of rarely used educational ICT resources. The rec...

PurposeThis study aims to examine the factors influencing undergraduates' intention to use university digital libraries by integrating the information system success model and affinity theory.Design/methodology/approachBased on the 265 valid responses gathered through a survey, the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique was employed to test the research model and hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicated that system quality and digital libraries (DLs)' affinity significantly affect undergraduates' user satisfaction. However, information quality and service quality does not. User satisfaction has significant impact on undergraduates' intention to use university digital libraries.Practical implicationsLibrarians and service providers should focus on enhancing the system quality of digital library and DLs' affinity, to improve the undergraduates' user satisfaction, further motivating undergraduates to use university digital libraries.Originality/valueThe information system success model is enriched by affinity as an additional construct.

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to employ a user-centered approach to identify subgroups of people with similar profiles based on their perceptions of multiple dimensions of digital products' coolness and to test the differences across subgroups in the intention to use these products.Design/methodology/approachIn Study 1, 1,161 adults rated a virtual digital product on four dimensions of coolness. In Study 2, 660 college students made similar ratings and also reported their intention to use a real digital product. Participants' ratings were analyzed using a user-centered approach, namely latent profile analysis.FindingsStudy 1 identified groups of participants who had similar profiles of product ratings on the four dimensions of coolness: niche cool, mass cool, uncertain cool and uncool. Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1 and in addition showed that these groups varied in their intention to use the product and in whether a specific dimension increased or decreased this intention.Research limitations/implicationsThe cross-sectional data preclude inferences about causality, calling for experimental or longitudinal research. Additionally, future research should explore whether the results generalize to other product categories and other age groups.Practical implicationsManagers should design digital products, segment the market and develop flexible strategies based on combined responses to dimensions of coolness perception.Originality/valueThe present research employed a user-centered approach to identify groups of people who share similar patterns of coolness perception. This study provides new insight that was not available in variable-centered research.

This study examines factors that influence users' continuance intention to use a mobile application. There exist few empirical researches focused solely on examining factors influencing users' continuance intention of using mobile applications. An empirical analysis is conducted with data collected from 431 smartphone users in China. Two application personality dimensions (i.e., enthusiasm and unpleasantness) and one user perception dimension (i.e., aesthetics) were found to have no significant impact on application continuance intention while genuineness and sophistication from application personality dimensions and ease of use and perceived control from user perception dimensions have a positive significant influence. This study provides an insight to application developers on how to improve the quality and usability of mobile applications and enhance continues use.

Blogs are known for their information and knowledge sharing capabilities. Several theoretical frameworks have been proposed to study the factors that influence an individual's intention to use blogs for knowledge sharing. However, factors like content familiarity and design familiarity are lacking in the literature. Hence, this paper aims to extend past studies and investigate the influence of familiarity with blogs in knowledge sharing. Particularly, the purpose of this paper is twofold. The first objective is to explore the effect of familiarity in terms of content familiarity and design familiarity on individual intention to use a blog as a knowledge sharing tool. The second objective is to determine whether familiarity factors change with gender, blog experience, and cultural differences. The results show that content familiarity and design familiarity positively influence an individual's knowledge sharing behavior in blogs. In addition, content familiarity and design familiarity differ according to gender, blog experience, and cultural differences.

The use of technology has necessarily invaded all aspects of our lives. One such area is education, especially that of lecturers at teacher training colleges. However, availability of technology in the education system does not necessarily mean the use of technology. Acceptance of technology use by individuals is critical to the successful implementation of technology in teacher training. Therefore, there is a need to research factors that determine the intention to use technology. Researchers have listed numerous variables that influence the intention to use the technology in various aspects of education. This article aimed to determine whether age, gender and academic qualification influence lecturers' behavioural intention to accept and use technology. Data were collected from lecturers in 10 teacher-training colleges using a unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT)-based questionnaire. SPSS (v. 20) descriptive statistics were used in data analysis. The results indicated that gender, age and level of education have no influence on the behavioural intention to accept and use technology. These findings provide important practical implications, which must be considered in technology training of teacher training college lecturers.

This comprehensive study reviews the technological impact during the COVID-19 pandemic and elucidates technology usage to technology-enhanced learning which assisted in enhancing the behavioral intention to use technologies among undergraduates. Recently, higher education institutions suffered from the impact of using emerging technologies with electronic learning during the COVID-19 pandemic for improving student academic performance in a higher educational institution. The main purpose of this study is to determine the impact of technology-enhanced learning that allows the students to use emerging technologies and software to develop their skills and improve their academic performance. The method should influence critical instructions in the way of online learning through the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed that the unique features of TEL spur and encourage the behavioral intention to use e-learning. Additionally, social learning, perceived deterrents, and internal controls contribute to behaviors. © 2021 IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Harumanis demands delicate handling and farmers must know how to use safe pesticides. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine factors influencing the use of safe pesticide among Harumanis farmers in Mata Ayer, Perlis. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used to underpin this study. This study suggests that attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, knowledge and moral norm as the variables that influence the use of safe pesticides. Data were collected from 97 registered Harumanis farmers under Department of Agriculture (DOA) Malaysia through questionnaires. SmartPLS was used to test the hypotheses in this study. The results showed that attitude, moral norm and knowledge had positive effects on the intention to use safe pesticides. Moreover, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control exhibited insignificant effect on the dependent variable. The results provide helpful information to the stakeholders in the Harumanis industry, from which they could develop and improve appropriate strategies and provide essential assistance to the Harumanis farmers.

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of perceived ease to use and subjective norms on intention to use with perceived usefulness and attitude towards use as an intervening variable (a study on users of the JKN mobile application segment of workers receiving corporate wages in the Serang Branch of BPJS Kesehatan). The data collection methods used are library research and field studies by distributing questionnaires to 190 users of the JKN mobile application for the segment of workers who receive wages for business entities in the Serang Branch of BPJS Kesehatan using proportional random sampling techniques. The data analysis technique used is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with SmartPLS software. The results of this study indicate that perceived ease to use has a negative and insignificant effect on intention to use; subjective norm has a positive and significant effect on intention to use; perceived ease to use has a positive and significant effect on perceived usefulness; perceived ease to use has a positive and significant effect on attitude towards use; subjective norm has a positive and significant effect on perceived usefulness; Subjective norm has a positive and significant effect on attitude towards use; perceived usefulness has a positive and significant effect on intention to use; and attitude towards use has a positive and significant effect on intention to use.

The issue of tool adoption has been the subject of many investigations, which focus either on acceptability (evaluating intention to use, a priori) or acceptance (evaluating real tool use, a posteriori). There are many criteria in the literature explaining why a tool is accepted or rejected by users, but behavioral observations are rare. This work aims to study the relationship between acceptability and acceptance and to find out if there is a hierarchy between the criteria that lead a user to use a particular tool. We exposed participants to eight xylophones varying according to three criteria: Ease of use, Utility, and Aesthetics. We assessed acceptability and judgment of participants about xylophones with questionnaires, based on tool use observation in a video session, and after a short-term use (Experiment 1); we also measured acceptance after long-term use of five sessions during which participants learned to play xylophone (Experiment 2). The results suggested that previous exposure to the tool influenced the judgment of the user, indicating a difference between acceptability and acceptance and between observation and use of a tool. The results also indicate differences in the hierarchy of criteria. In the acceptability phase, user judgments are guided by Ease of use. However, during the acceptance phase, the Utility criterion has the greatest influence, whether in terms of tool preference, or time spent using tools.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis penerimaan e-Rapor SMP menggunakan Ekstensi Model Penerimaan Teknologi dengan menyertakan faktor Keyakinan-Sendiri (Self-Efficacy) di dalam model. Intrumen pengumpulan data berupa angket yang terdiri dari 19 pernyataan dan menggunakan skala Likert 5. Responden pada penelitian ini adalah 60 orang pengguna e-Rapor di SMP Negeri di Banjarmasin. Data penelitian dianalisis menggunakan Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) dengan bantuan software SmartPLS 3.3.2. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diketahui bahwa Keyakinan-Sendiri (Self-Efficacy) secara langsung berpengaruh signifikan dan positif terhadap Minat Menggunakan e-Rapor.

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