A review on objective measurement of usage in technology acceptance studies.

This paper reviews objective measurement of usage in user acceptance studies using the technology acceptance model (TAM). The use of objective measurement is quite uncommon in TAM. In addition to its low frequency, another striking phenomenon is the way objective measurement is used. Namely, only a minor potential of the information available is typically used, and, for example, the temporal aspect (changes in time) is almost always neglected. The paper describes the TAM studies where objective measurement of usage has been utilized and ponders the way objective measurements are taken. The ultimate goal of the paper is to improve objective measures used in TAM studies. To this end, several suggestions are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]