Examining the relationships among personality traits, IT-specific traits, and perceived ease of use

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1780-1788

  Davis, Joshua M ^a   Lee, Lorraine S ^a   Yi, Mun Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

IT specific traits; Perceived ease of use; Personality traits; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

BIG FIVE; COMPUTER ANXIETY; EASE-OF-USE; IT-SPECIFIC TRAITS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERSONAL INNOVATIVENESS; PERSONALITY TRAITS; RESEARCH MODELS; SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84870189217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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