Virginia Tech
A Digital Library Success Model for Computer Science Student Use of a Meta-Search System
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe success of any product of Information Technology lies in its acceptance by the target audience. Several behavioral models have been formulated to analyze factors that affect human decisions to accept new technology while some technology is already in place. These models enable us to identify the areas of concern within the system and its environment and to address them. However, these models are based in industrial settings, and are more suited to situations when a person is introduced to the field of Information Technology. A separate stream of research tries to model the factors that cause an Information System, especially at the workplace, to be termed a success. No such models exist for the academic community and the Computer Science student community, in particular. In this thesis, the success of a new academic meta-search system for the Computer Science student community is measured and the extent to which various factors affect this success is identified. For this purpose, an Information System success model is composed with the help of models for technology acceptance and Digital Library quality metrics. The resultant model is then used to formulate a survey instrument and the results of a user study with this instrument are used to begin to validate this model.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Computer Science
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Computer Science
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2006
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Vidya Sagar, Vikram Raj
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Fox, Edward A.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A.
- Fan, Weiguo Patrick
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-01192007-162739
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/30995