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The Intention to Use Mobile Digital Library Technology: A Focus Group Study in the United Arab Emirates

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  • Sumayyah Hassan Alfaresi

    (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)

  • Kate Hone

    (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)

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This paper presents a qualitative study on student adoption of mobile library technology in a developing world context. The findings support the applicability of a number of existing constructs from the technology acceptance literature, such as perceived ease of use, social influence and trust. However, they also suggest the need to modify some adoption factors previously found in the literature to fit the specific context of mobile library adoption. Perceived value was found to be a more relevant overarching adoption factor than perceived usefulness for this context. Facilitating conditions were identified as important but these differed somewhat from those covered in earlier literature. The research also uncovered the importance of trialability for this type of application. The findings provide a basis for improving theory in the area of mobile library adoption and suggest a number of practical design recommendations to help designers of mobile library technology to create applications that meet user needs.

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  • Sumayyah Hassan Alfaresi & Kate Hone, 2015. "The Intention to Use Mobile Digital Library Technology: A Focus Group Study in the United Arab Emirates," International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), IGI Global, vol. 7(2), pages 23-42, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jmhci0:v:7:y:2015:i:2:p:23-42
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