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Ask me no questions: increasing empirical evidence for a qualitative approach to technology acceptance

Ask me no questions: increasing empirical evidence for a qualitative approach to technology acceptance
Ask me no questions: increasing empirical evidence for a qualitative approach to technology acceptance
The Technology Acceptance Model and its derivatives position Perceived Ease of Use, sometimes mediated by Perceived Usefulness, as the primary indicator of an intention to adopt. However, an initial study cast doubt on such a causal relationship: poor ease-of-use scores using a standard instrument did not necessarily correspond to poor usefulness comments from users. We follow up in this paper to explore reproducibility and generalizability. Using secondary review of results from testing and validation activities, we find confirmation that the post hoc measurement of Perceived Ease of Use is less important to participants than their concern for task-oriented usefulness. An ambivalent relationship obtains, therefore, between quantitative measures of Perceived Ease of Use and qualitative review of comments on Perceived Usefulness across three sites in Italy, Spain and the UK. Participants seem to prioritize their professional responsibilities and focus on how the technology under test might support them in their role. We therefore offer an explanation based on psychological theories of work and suggest a controlled follow-on study exploring the narrative content of technology acceptance.
Mixed methods, System usability, Technology affordance, User adoption, job characteristics model, job demand-control model, technology acceptance
0302-9743
125-136
Springer
Pickering, Brian
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Kurosu, Masaaki

Pickering, Brian, Bartholomew, Rachael, Nouri Janian, Mariet, Lopez Moreno, Borja and Surridge, Mike (2020) Ask me no questions: increasing empirical evidence for a qualitative approach to technology acceptance. Kurosu, Masaaki (ed.) In Human-Computer Interaction. Design and User Experience. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 12181, Springer. pp. 125-136 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49059-1_9).

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The Technology Acceptance Model and its derivatives position Perceived Ease of Use, sometimes mediated by Perceived Usefulness, as the primary indicator of an intention to adopt. However, an initial study cast doubt on such a causal relationship: poor ease-of-use scores using a standard instrument did not necessarily correspond to poor usefulness comments from users. We follow up in this paper to explore reproducibility and generalizability. Using secondary review of results from testing and validation activities, we find confirmation that the post hoc measurement of Perceived Ease of Use is less important to participants than their concern for task-oriented usefulness. An ambivalent relationship obtains, therefore, between quantitative measures of Perceived Ease of Use and qualitative review of comments on Perceived Usefulness across three sites in Italy, Spain and the UK. Participants seem to prioritize their professional responsibilities and focus on how the technology under test might support them in their role. We therefore offer an explanation based on psychological theories of work and suggest a controlled follow-on study exploring the narrative content of technology acceptance.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 10 July 2020
Published date: 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: Acknowledgements. This work was conducting with support of the OPERANDO (EU H2020 research grant No 653704) and of the SHiELD project (EU H2020 research grant No 727301). Publisher Copyright: © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords: Mixed methods, System usability, Technology affordance, User adoption, job characteristics model, job demand-control model, technology acceptance

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443247
ISSN: 0302-9743
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Author: Brian Pickering ORCID iD
Author: Rachael Bartholomew
Author: Mariet Nouri Janian
Author: Borja Lopez Moreno
Author: Mike Surridge
Editor: Masaaki Kurosu

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