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The Acceptance of Mobile Technology in Knowledge Providing Model from the Perspective of User’s Characteristics

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The study presents the results of an investigation into the acceptance of mobile technology usage for knowledge providing in different contexts: (1) educational/work environment, (2) mobile users’ professional background (related and non-related to information and communication technology (ICT)), and (3) individuals’ age. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was adjusted for the purpose of explaining and predicting mobile users’ intentions. Then, the model was empirically examined using the structural equation modeling (SEM) with the dataset of 303 individuals. The results reveal differences in mobile technology usage acceptance in different subgroups of respondents. However, similar results of hypothesis testing were obtained for respondents without ICT background and older respondents. The research findings imply the necessity of adjusting the content distributed via mobile devices to recipients’ age, their ICT skills, and context of usage, i.e. education versus work environment.

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Stal, J., Paliwoda-Pękosz, G. (2018). The Acceptance of Mobile Technology in Knowledge Providing Model from the Perspective of User’s Characteristics. In: Wrycza, S., Maślankowski, J. (eds) Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education. SIGSAND/PLAIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 333. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00060-8_5

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