Technology Acceptance Model Instrument Research Articles

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) applied to a Disciplinary Social Network for online psychology students

Social networks have been present in people's daily lives to share information and communicate with family and friends. In the educational field, they have come up with commonly used social networks such as Facebook and Twitter-X, however, these networks have been accused of accessing user data without their consent for marketing purposes. In this scenario, there are open-source social networks that can be used in the educational field, thus creating Disciplinary Social Networks (Disciplinary SN). Our research objective is to evaluate the Attitude, Intention to Use, Perceived Usefulness, Ease of Use, Trust and Perceived Risk of a Disciplinary Social Network. For this, we used a modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) instrument. The sample consisted of 211 university students from an online psychology degree and users of a Disciplinary Social Network based on the Mastodon social network. The results obtained show considerably high means in all scales of the modified TAM instrument, except for perceived risk, which obtained a low mean. It is concluded that the Disciplinary Social Network was perceived as a safe and reliable environment, with a low perception of risk, in contrast to the findings of other authors who evaluated the same elements in commonly used social networks such as Facebook.

Managing Muslim Funeral Reporting Using E-Easy Funeral with Utilization of Instant Messaging

Managing the funeral process among Muslims usually depends on the mosque committee’s competency to inform the family of the deceased. Various problems have been faced by users when reporting death case funeral arrangements such as the lack of a specific platform for them to create a death report. Currently, users need to make a phone call or send a Short Message System (SMS) to report the case to the committee. This has made it difficult for the committee to manage the funeral arrangements as the information was not received or communicated clearly. Therefore, this study introduces a simplified approach to funeral reporting application using a mobile platform integrates with instant messaging services to assist users in making death reports to the committee for funeral management known as E-Easy Funeral. This study simplifies and adapts the Waterfall Model phases into a 3-phases development model, which are analysis and design, development, and evaluation. E-Easy Funeral targets Muslim communities and mosque committees that manage the funeral process. Hence, this study conducted usability testing and user acceptance testing to measure the usability and the acceptability of E-Easy Funeral among the targeted users (46 participants) using the usability test instrument and the Technology Acceptance Model instrument. As the result, based on the average means core of the three dimensions of the usability test and the four dimensions of the User Acceptance Test, clearly shows that the E-Easy Funeral application is usable and positively accepted by the users. Having considered the evaluation results and the responses by the participants, this study has successfully introduced a simplified and user-friendly mobile application for a funeral reporting tool to inform death cases for funeral management.

EVALUASI SISTEM E-SAMSAT BERBASIS MOBILE UNTUK LAYANAN MASYARAKAT KOTA PALEMBANG DENGAN TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL

The development of science and information technology supports activities carried out by individuals in using technology, to support operational and management performance. Such as Mobile-based e-Samsat Service to serve vehicle taxation with two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicles, especially the people of Palembang. Mobile tax payments that can make it easier and closer to densely populated locations or caused by busyness. Information systems help service income tax factors of successful application and use of information technology are user factors. The level of readiness of users to receive information technology has a major influence in determining whether or not the application of the technology is successful. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that influence users in using the mobile-based e-Samsat Information System in the city of Palembang. Data analysis was carried out with SPSS (Statistical package for the social science) with the TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) software which is a technology acceptance model that will be used by technology users. By evaluating e-Samsat, it is to find out whether the system has served motor vehicle tax payments properly and has met service quality standards. This study will evaluate the performance of e-Samsat with TAM instruments

A library mobile device deployment to enhance the medical student experience in a rural longitudinal integrated clerkship.

ObjectiveInvestigators implemented the Rural Information Connection (RIC) project, a library-initiated deployment of iPad Mini 3s for third-year medical students who were enrolled in a seven-month rural longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) rotation. The research aims were to determine if devices preloaded with high-quality mobile health apps enhanced the experience and increased access to and awareness of mobile health information resources for the enrolled project participants.MethodsNine participants enrolled in this mixed methods research project. Pre- and post-survey and structured learning journals (SLJs) were used for data collection on device and app use. Descriptive statistics and thematic coding analysis included data from seven pre-surveys, nine post-surveys, and sixty-four SLJ prompts. The validated Technology Acceptance Model instrument was also incorporated to gauge the devices’ integration into the participants’ workflow.ResultsThe investigation indicated that the iPad Mini 3 and resources were utilized and integrated at varying levels in the participants’ workflow. Reported use of health information apps suggests a preference for broad-based information sources rather than specific or specialized information resources. Participants performed several tasks on the device, including seeking background information, educating patients, and managing rotation schedules. Participant reflections indicated positive experiences utilizing the device and health information resources, which enhanced their rural LIC rotations.ConclusionsThe research analysis demonstrates the information-seeking behavior of medical students immersed in a rural environment and indicates an acceptance of mobile technology into the workflow of participants in this project. Mobile device deployments offer great opportunities for librarians to design innovative programming in medical education.

Social media influence on purchase intentions: instrument validation

This article focuses on the psychometric stability of the technology acceptance model (TAM) by Davis (1989) when applied to users of social media interacting in ways which may eventually lead to the purchase of environmentally sustainable apparel. The study used an online survey method with a sample size of 178. This research provides evidence that the instrument is a valid and reliable measure when being used in a social media context. Given this evidence, those specifically impacted by this research, which include but are not limited to communication managers and those responsible for online communities and social media policies, can confidently apply the TAM instrument for use in this arena. The acceptance of users engaging in online peer interaction through specific social media technology websites including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest has been validated and makes this study valid for future research considerations.

Continuance intention of E-portfolio system: A confirmatory and multigroup invariance analysis of technology acceptance model

The technology acceptance model (TAM) has been applied in various fields to study a wide range of information technologies. Although TAM has been developed in this research stream in Taiwan, TAM's issues of measurement have received scant attention. A robust model must perform measurement invariance across different respondent subgroups to ensure that various sample profiles have the same relationship. A survey of regarding E-portfolio system reuse intention was constructed, resulting in 360 valid responses across subgroups differing in gender, grade, and levels of willingness to share, to examine the measurement invariance of TAM. The results empirically support the validity of our TAM instrument for evaluating E-portfolio reuse intentions behavior. These findings suggest that men and women, differing grades, levels of willingness to share conceptualize the TAM construct in similarly. The implications of these results enable us to understand TAM's validity in E-portfolio acceptance research.

Analysis of the technology acceptance model in examining students' behavioural intention to use an e-portfolio system

<span>In recent years, instructors have had an increasing interest in integrating Internet based technologies into their classroom as part of the learning environment. Compared to studies on other information systems, student users' behaviour towards e-portfolios have not been assessed and thoroughly understood. This paper analyses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in order to examine students' behavioural intention to use an electronic portfolio system, meaning how students use and appropriate it within the specific framework of a course. An E-Portfolio Usage Questionnaire was developed using existing scales from prior TAM instruments and modified where appropriate. Seventy-two participants completed the survey questionnaire measuring their responses to perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), attitudes towards usage (ATU) and behavioural intention to use (BIU) the e-portfolio system. The results of the study indicated that students' perceived ease of use (PEOU) had a significant influence on attitude towards usage (ATU). Subsequently, perceived ease of use (PEOU) had the strongest significant influence on perceived usefulness (PU). The research further demonstrated that individual characteristics and technological factors may have a significant influence on instructors to adopt e-portfolio into their courses. Results suggest that TAM is a solid theoretical model where its validity can extend to an e-portfolio context.</span>

Measuring the Acceptance of Internet Technology by Consumers

This research reviews studies using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to create a modified model and instrument to study the acceptance of Internet technology by consumers. We developed a modified TAM for the acceptance of Internet-based technologies by consumers. We retained the original constructs from the TAM and included additional constructs from previous literature including gender, experience, complexity, and voluntariness. We developed a survey instrument using existing scales from prior TAM instruments and modified them where appropriate. The instrument yielded respectable reliability and construct validity. The findings suggest that the modified TAM is a good predictor of consumer behavior in using the Internet. We found that attitude toward using the Internet acts as a strong predictor of behavioral intention to use, and actual usage of Internet technologies. Future researchers can use the resultant instrument to test how consumers adopt and accept Internet-based applications.

A critical assessment of potential measurement biases in the technology acceptance model: three experiments

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is widely used by researchers and practitioners to predict and explain user acceptance of information technologies. TAM models system usage intentions and behavior as a function of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. The original scales for measuring the TAM constructs have been confirmed to be reliable and valid in several replications and applications spanning a range of technologies and user populations. However, a measurement bias may be present because the TAM instrument physically groupstogether the multiple items measuring each individual construct. Many scholars of instrument design would object to such item grouping, instead advocating that items from different constructs be intermixedin order to reduce “carryover” effects among the responses to multiple items targeting a specific construct, which might artificially inflate the observed reliability and validity. Three experiments involving two systems and a total of 708 subjects are reported which address whether such carryover biases are present in the TAM measures. All three studies found that item groupingvs. item intermixinghad no significant effect (positive or negative) either on the high levels of reliability and validity of the TAM scales, or on the path coefficients linking them together. Ironically, open-ended verbal evaluations indicated that subjects were more confused and annoyed when items were intermixed,suggesting a tendency toward “output interference” effects, which themselves could have a biasing effect. Our findings suggest that those who employ the TAM measures should continue using the original ( grouped)format in order to best predict and explain user acceptance of information technology.