An exploration of affect factors and their role in user technology acceptance: Mediation and causality

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1252-1263

  Sun, Heshan ^a   Zhang, Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL INTENTION; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS); PATH ANALYSIS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE (PEOU); PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS (PU); PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; PRIMARY FACTORS; PRIMARY USER (PU); QUANTITATIVE DATA; USER TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE;

BISMUTH; CLARIFICATION; E-LEARNING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PLUTONIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 45849119027     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20819     Document Type: Article

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