An Empirical Investigation of Habitual Usage and Past Usage on Technology Acceptance Evaluations and Continuance Intention

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 48-73

  Wu, Mei Chun ^a   Kuo, Feng Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Habit; Habitual usage; Past usage; Self perception; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968894124     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1453794.1453801     Document Type: Article

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