Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"consumer adoption"”.
-
Consumer Adoption of Health Information Systems
… health communities directly targeted at the consumer for aiding self-management of one's health and wellness. However, widespread adoption and usage of these systems by consumers is yet to happen, which underscores the need for a systematic study to identify the factors that drive consumer …
-
Consumer adoption of new technologies : the role of perceived risk
… pioneering study integrating perceived risk from consumer adoption of new technology literature, employing the UTAUT2 model to assist in initiating the integration of multi-disciplinary research in electronic marketing. In this research, Trust Belief (TR) was hypothesized, for first time, as a …
-
Privacy Suspension with Sustainability and Trust in Consumer Adoption of Smart Technology
… artificial intelligence, and big data, provides consumers with a new level of convenience through various smart-connected products (SCPs). Although many experts have increasingly warned about the privacy vulnerability issues of various SCPs, consumers often underestimate privacy risks when …
-
Exploring key barriers to consumer adoption of meat analogues : meat attachment and cultural identity
… paper investigates another crucial barrier to consumer adoption in psychological meat attachment and cultural food identity. I then propose an experimental study to test the hypothesis that a matched identity frame (i.e. masculine framing) could induce higher willingness to substitute a …
-
An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Value-Added Services on Consumer Adoption of Mobile Payment in the UK
… payment method that uses technology to enable consumers to pay for goods and services using their mobile devices. As an emerging payment method, m-payment is marketed as a secure and convenient alternative to traditional payment methods. Despite the purported advantages of m-payment, however, …
-
Fashion: Hedonic vs. utilitarian: A study of fit issues of women’s ready to wear and an examination of the technology acceptance model for consumer adoption of 3D body scanning for improved fit of denim
… can be used to eliminate ill-fitting apparel for consumers, in this case denim pants (jeans). In order to investigate why consumers have not yet adopted this technology, a survey was conducted using principles from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to understand the motivations of females aged …
-
Digital readiness and the adoption of self-service banking technologies in South Africa
… bank managers need to learn and understand new consumer behaviours and trends for them to keep up with customer needs and to remain competitive. As such, it becomes necessary for marketers to understand consumer decision making processes related to self-service banking technologies. Of …
-
Learning to Trade Off Performance and Safety in Mixed Autonomy Traffic
… vehicles (AVs), and with the slow but steady consumer adoption of AVs on road networks, there is a newfound need to study the interactions between efficient traffic flow and driving safety in mixed autonomy traffic. Extending from reinforcement learning methods in robotic control methods and …
-
Factors Influencing Customer Adoption of Mobile Banking Services in Tanzania
… in order to analyze the factors that influence consumer adoption of mobile banking in Tanzania. A questionnaire was developed and then distributed to customers of major mobile banking service providers in Tanzania. Using primary data collection method, from the 150 questionnaires that were …
-
Development of sensor based evaluation methodologies for developing world products
Often consumers in the developed world have a wide range of options available to them when considering a certain product family, such as a smartphone. The plethora of options is in large part a result of the degree to which the supply chains have advanced in the developed world. Organizations such …
-
Prediction of Quality of Experience for Video Streaming Using Raw QoS Parameters
Along with the rapid growth in consumer adoption of modern portable devices, video streaming is expected to dominate a large share of the global Internet traffic in the near future. Today user experience is becoming a reliable indicator for video service providers and telecommunication operators to …
-
The effects of technology in retail banking
… these technologies and a brief discussion on how consumers have changed their behaviors to embrace these new technologies. Some of these technologies are payment cards, mobile communication devices, internet, software agents and telematics Chapter 4, Security and Privacy Concerns, due to the …
-
Performance targets for electric vehicle batteries
… from clean energy sources. Batteries affect the consumer adoption of electric vehicles by influencing two important vehicle characteristics: cost and driving range on a single charge. The cost of the battery is a significant fraction of total vehicle cost, and the battery's energy capacity …
-
A model of key characteristics affecting consumer attitudes toward the usage of free legitimate ad-supported music download services.
… looking for ways to profit from changing consumer behaviour. To date, literature has looked at why people illicitly download (e.g. motivations, ethical considerations), the financial impact of file sharing (e.g. lost revenue), legal approaches to combatting file sharing (e.g. what …
-
Essays on the dynamics of alternative fuel vehicle adoption : insights from the market for hybrid-electric vehicles in the United States
… US, with more than 30 HEV models available to consumers today. In this dissertation I explore the dynamics of adoption of HEVs, examining factors influencing consumer adoption of HEVs to date, and, looking forward, the role of HEVs in the emerging market for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs). In …
-
An evaluation of the factors influencing the adoption of e-commerce in the purchasing of leisure travel by the residents of Cascais, Portugal
… reasons for the lower than anticipated rate of adoption of electronic commerce in the purchasing of leisure travel. The main aim of the research was to evaluate those factors influencing the adoption of e-commerce in the purchasing of leisure travel. The study was developed based on the adoption …
-
Exploring Antecedents to Environmentally-Consequential Consumer Choices and Behaviors
… two essays that explore the antecedents of consumer decision-making when choices or behaviors have significant environmental consequences. The first essay involves theoretical development and experimental testing of a conceptual model describing the process by which a car-buyer evaluates the …
-
Measuring the perceived attributes of innovation: A study of capacitive switch technology in industrially designed user interface controls
… and Driscoll (2005). Results indicated whether a consumer is willing to accept capacitive switch innovation in industrially designed user interface controls.</p>
-
Az új média szolgáltatások piaca = The market of new media services
… of innovations and the different stages of consumer adoption. The dissertation discusses the limitations and differences in the application of diffusion theory to new media according to the research results to date. The hypotheses of the research are primarily aimed at capturing the …