Technology acceptance model for wireless Internet

TLDR

Wireless Internet via mobile devices is reshaping communication and daily activities, yet its widespread adoption depends on user acceptance and technological advancement. The study develops a technology acceptance model for wireless Internet via mobile devices to explain the factors that influence user acceptance. The model adapts TAM to include individual differences, technology complexity, facilitating conditions, social influences, and wireless trust, proposing that these constructs shape perceived usefulness and ease of use and outlines twelve propositions to guide future empirical research. These constructs ultimately determine users’ intention and willingness to adopt wireless Internet via mobile devices.

Abstract

Wireless Internet via mobile devices (WIMD) is leading the world into another spectrum of communications and means of conducting day‐to‐day business and life activities. Full bloom of wireless Internet services depends on user acceptance, as well as technology improvement. This paper develops a technology acceptance model for wireless Internet via mobile devices (TAM for wireless Internet), a conceptual framework to explain the factors influencing user acceptance of WIMD. By revising the technology acceptance model (TAM) to represent some unique features of the wireless system under study, TAM for wireless Internet proposes that constructs such as individual differences, technology complexity, facilitating conditions, social influences, and wireless trust environment determine user‐perceived short and long‐term usefulness, and ease of using WIMD. These, in turn, determine user intention and willingness to adopt WIMD. Twelve propositions are developed to promote and facilitate future empirical research relating to WIMD.