Empirical Research Based on TAM in Acceptance of Mobile Homecare Systems

Author

Zhang, HuiYing ; Feng, Lei ; Archer, Norm

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

3143

Lastpage

3146

Abstract

In this paper, the factors of Canadian homecare professionals´ acceptance of mobile homecare systems (MHS) was investigated according to Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Task-technology Fit (TTF). Firstly, a hypothetical model which was derived from the integration of TAM, TTF, Social Norm (SN) and Proficiency (P) was proposed for the homecare professionals´ acceptance of MHS based on literatures about user acceptance of information technology (UAIT).Secondly, a questionnaire was designed for examination of proposed model according to previous related researches. Moreover, the reliability and validity of questionnaire were verified by collected data, and the hypothetical model was tested and coefficients among latent variables were estimated using linear structural equation. At last, discussion and explanation about the result was put forward.

Keywords

health care; mobile computing; Canadian homecare professional acceptance; mobile homecare system; task-technology fit; technology acceptance model; user acceptance-of-information technology; Costs; Equations; Information technology; Medical services; Personnel; Predictive models; Quality of service; Technology management; Testing; Tin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.779

Filename

4340554