12 User Acceptance of Interactive Technologies

Andrina Granić

DOI: 10.1201/9781003495109-12

12.1 Background and a Brief History of Technology Adoption

More than half a century of research has resulted in a large number of models and theories of technology acceptance and adoption. The proposed theoretical perspectives have been widely used to facilitate the assessment of various information and communication technology (ICT) that relate to different types of technologies, interactive systems, environments, tools, applications, services, and devices that significantly impact our daily lives in various ways. Understanding user acceptance and actual use of innovations and new technologies is one of the most extensive areas of research, which ...

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