Intention to Adopt a Text Message-based Mobile Coaching Service to Help Stop Smoking

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Cacho-Elizondo ◽  
Niousha Shahidi ◽  
Vesselina Tossan
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment

Cell phones make it possible to offer coaching services through text/video messages, to support users trying to break addictions. Given that use of such services is still low in France, it is important to have greater understanding of what leads users to adopt them. Therefore, the authors propose and validate an explanatory model for the intention to adopt a mobile coaching service to help people to stop smoking. This article uses the concepts of vicarious innovativeness, social influence, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, and perceived irritation.

Giving Up Smoking Using SMS Messages on your Mobile Phone

2016 ◽  
pp. 238-259
Author(s):  
Silvia Cacho-Elizondo ◽  
Niousha Shahidi ◽  
Vesselina Tossan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment

The current tendency to use cell phones or other mobile devices for healthcare purposes offers a huge opportunity to improve public health worldwide. In that direction, mobile devices make it easier to offer coaching services through text/video messages, to support individuals trying to break addictions such as smoking. Given that use of such services is still low in France and other countries, it is important to have greater understanding of what leads users to adopt them. Therefore, we propose and validate an explanatory model for the intention to adopt a mobile coaching service to help people to stop smoking. This chapter uses the concepts of vicarious innovativeness, social influence, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, and perceived irritation.

Giving Up Smoking Using SMS Messages on your Mobile Phone

2015 ◽  
pp. 72-94
Author(s):  
Silvia Cacho-Elizondo ◽  
Niousha Shahidi ◽  
Vesselina Tossan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment

The current tendency to use cell phones or other mobile devices for healthcare purposes offers a huge opportunity to improve public health worldwide. In that direction, mobile devices make it easier to offer coaching services through text/video messages, to support individuals trying to break addictions such as smoking. Given that use of such services is still low in France and other countries, it is important to have greater understanding of what leads users to adopt them. Therefore, we propose and validate an explanatory model for the intention to adopt a mobile coaching service to help people to stop smoking. This chapter uses the concepts of vicarious innovativeness, social influence, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, and perceived irritation.

What Will Entail Adoption of a Mobile Coaching Service?

2019 ◽  
pp. 455-485
Author(s):  
Silvia Cacho-Elizondo ◽  
Niousha Shahidi ◽  
Vesselina Tossan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Delivery Mode ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Cost Efficiencies ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment

There is a growing tendency to use smartphones or other mobile devices for healthcare purposes, which offers a huge opportunity to improve public health worldwide and at the same time generates cost efficiencies and higher performance. In that vein, mobile devices make it easier to provide enhanced coaching and follow-up services through text or video messages and also through two-way interaction via social networks (e.g., Facebook) or virtual reality devices (e.g., Oculus). This delivery mode supports individuals or patients trying to break addictions, such as smoking or drinking. The authors propose and validate an explanatory model for the intention to adopt a mobile coaching service and applied it in the context of helping people in their smoking cessation efforts. This chapter uses the concepts of vicarious innovativeness, social influence, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, and perceived irritation as key variables explaining the adoption patterns of this type of mobile coaching service.

A Study on Behavior Intention to Adopt Mobile Banking Apps

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
Phan Dai Thich
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Behavior Intention ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Tam Model

This study aims to examine the factors influencing consumers' behavior intention to adopt mobile banking apps. The research uses the TAM model with additional variables such as social influence and perceived risk to evaluate how these factors impact the behavior intention of young customers toward adopting mobile banking services. PLS-SEM was used as the main research method. The findings from this paper reaffirmed that perceived usefulness and social influence are the most influential factor in behavior intention, but perceived ease of use and perceived risk showed insignificant impacts on young consumers' behavior intention in Vietnam. This paper also found that perceived ease of use had no direct impact on behavior intention but an indirect impact through facilitating perceived usefulness. This subject makes a practical and academic contribution in the context of a developing country where is lacking research in mobile banking apps.

A Formative Evaluation of Rendezvous

2016 ◽  
pp. 632-648
Author(s):  
Alton Y.K. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Qualitative Feedback ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment

Web applications that offer entertainment rarely support knowledge sharing. Conversely, applications that are intended for knowledge sharing rarely offer entertainment. The intent of this paper is therefore to propose the coalescence of knowledge sharing and entertainment in a Web application. The objectives of this paper are twofold: (1) to introduce a prototype called Rendezvous, which serves as a platform for both knowledge sharing and entertainment and (2) to conduct a formative evaluation of Rendezvous by soliciting feedback and its appeal for users' intention to adopt. A two-stage data collection plan was used. First, qualitative feedback was obtained from a group of 38 participants through focus groups. Thereafter, a questionnaire was developed and administered to 124 participants to assess users' intention to adopt. On the whole, the behavioral intention to adopt Rendezvous seems promising. Factors that seemed to influence behavioral intention to adopt included perceived utility, perceived enjoyment, perceived ease of use and social influences.

Who Influences Whom? Analyzing Workplace Referents’ Social Influence on it Adoption and Non-Adoption

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Eckhardt ◽  
Sven Laumer ◽  
Tim Weitzel
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Future Research ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
It Department ◽  
Adoption Research ◽  
Using Data

Technology adoption research has long struggled to incorporate normative beliefs from sources in the social environment of adopters into adoption models. We study the role of social influence from different workplace referent groups, like superiors and colleagues from the same or the IT department, on the intention to adopt. An empirical analysis, using data from 152 firms, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology and related approaches reveals that social influence on adoption significantly differs with regard to both source (peer groups) and sink (adopters and non-adopters) of the influence. The results imply that a single cumulative subjective norm measure might be too naive and that future research might considerably improve our understanding of IT adoption and non-adoption by revealing the differential impact of various peer groups on adoption intention, and also on its antecedents.

scholarly journals A Formative Evaluation of Rendezvous

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alton Y.K. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Qualitative Feedback ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment

Web applications that offer entertainment rarely support knowledge sharing. Conversely, applications that are intended for knowledge sharing rarely offer entertainment. The intent of this paper is therefore to propose the coalescence of knowledge sharing and entertainment in a Web application. The objectives of this paper are twofold: (1) to introduce a prototype called Rendezvous, which serves as a platform for both knowledge sharing and entertainment and (2) to conduct a formative evaluation of Rendezvous by soliciting feedback and its appeal for users' intention to adopt. A two-stage data collection plan was used. First, qualitative feedback was obtained from a group of 38 participants through focus groups. Thereafter, a questionnaire was developed and administered to 124 participants to assess users' intention to adopt. On the whole, the behavioral intention to adopt Rendezvous seems promising. Factors that seemed to influence behavioral intention to adopt included perceived utility, perceived enjoyment, perceived ease of use and social influences.

scholarly journals Wearable Technology Acceptance in Health Care Based on National Culture Differences: Cross-Country Analysis Between Chinese and Swiss Consumers (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Yang Meier ◽  
Petra Barthelmess ◽  
Wei Sun ◽  
Florian Liberatore
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Performance Expectancy ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Health Consciousness ◽  
Effort Expectancy

BACKGROUND The advancement of wearable devices and growing demand of consumers to monitor their own health have influenced the medical industry. Health care providers, insurers, and global technology companies intend to develop more wearable devices incorporating medical technology and to target consumers worldwide. However, acceptance of these devices varies considerably among consumers of different cultural backgrounds. Consumer willingness to use health care wearables is influenced by multiple factors that are of varying importance in various cultures. However, there is insufficient knowledge of the extent to which social and cultural factors affect wearable technology acceptance in health care. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to examine the influential factors on the intention to adopt health care wearables, and the differences in the underlying motives and usage barriers between Chinese and Swiss consumers. METHODS A new model for acceptance of health care wearables was conceptualized by incorporating predictors of different theories such as technology acceptance, health behavior, and privacy calculus based on an existing framework. To verify the model, a web-based survey in both the Chinese and German languages was conducted in China and Switzerland, resulting in 201 valid Chinese and 110 valid Swiss respondents. A multigroup partial least squares path analysis was applied to the survey data. RESULTS Performance expectancy (β=.361, <i>P</i>&lt;.001), social influence (β=.475, <i>P</i>&lt;.001), and hedonic motivation (β=.111, <i>P</i>=.01) all positively affected the behavioral intention of consumers to adopt wearables, whereas effort expectancy, functional congruence, health consciousness, and perceived privacy risk did not demonstrate a significant impact on behavioral intention. The group-specific path coefficients indicated health consciousness (β=.150, <i>P=</i>.01) as a factor positively affecting only the behavior intention of the Chinese respondents, whereas the factors affecting only the behavioral intention of the Swiss respondents proved to be effort expectancy (β=.165, <i>P</i>=.02) and hedonic motivation (β=.212, <i>P</i>=.02). Performance expectancy asserted more of an influence on the behavioral intention of the Swiss (β=.426, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) than the Chinese (β=.271, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) respondents, whereas social influence had a greater influence on the behavioral intention of the Chinese (β=.321, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) than the Swiss (β=.217, <i>P</i>=.004) respondents. Overall, the Chinese consumers displayed considerably higher behavioral intention (<i>P</i>&lt;.001) than the Swiss. These discrepancies are explained by differences in national culture. CONCLUSIONS This is one of the first studies to investigate consumers’ intention to adopt wearables from a cross-cultural perspective. This provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for future research, as well as practical implications for global vendors and insurers developing and promoting health care wearables with appropriate features in different countries. The testimonials and support by physicians, evidence of measurement accuracy, and easy handling of health care wearables would be useful in promoting the acceptance of wearables in Switzerland. The opinions of in-group members, involvement of employers, and multifunctional apps providing credible health care advice and solutions in cooperation with health care institutions would increase acceptance among the Chinese.

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