Authors:
Michele Cornacchia
1
;
Vittorio Baroncini
1
and
Stefano Livi
2
Affiliations:
1
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
;
2
Facoltà di Psicologia 2, Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Italy
Keyword(s):
Acceptance, assessment, controlled environment, ease of use, end users, evaluation, home control, home networking, home services, integration of ICT, intention of use, interoperability, laboratory home platform, laboratory trial, perceived usefulness, predictive model of user, services integration, usability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility Issues and Technology
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
User Modeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Whether or not ICT represents the most important vehicle to transform the society seems to be out of discussion. The point of interest diverts from how people do really feel with these services and from the way they perceive the advantages as acceptable to improve the quality of life and work. It is matter of fact that the technical innovation is characterized by a certain risk, the problem of how to implement the technology for sure and, ahead of this phase, the problem of predicting its influence on the social, working and private life in view of the high costs effort to produce. This study applies a predictive model for the acceptance to a services integrated home environment properly set-up in a special laboratory. A class of users was selected from the employees of the company which hosted the trial in order to participate at the evaluation sessions. The tasks were designed to point out the main innovative features of the services presented. The questionnaires were suitably desi
gned and submitted to collect the end-users opinions. The analysis was carried out to assess the performance by the side of the real users and to predict their intentions of use.
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