Using Innovation Diffusion Theory to Guide Collaboration Technology Evaluation: Work in Progress

Sonnenwald, D. H. and Maglaughlin, K. L. and Whitton, M. C. Using Innovation Diffusion Theory to Guide Collaboration Technology Evaluation: Work in Progress., 2001 . In IEEE 10th International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises. [Conference paper]

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Cost effective development of collaboration technology requires evaluation methods that consider group practices and can be used early in a system’s life-cycle. To address this challenge we developed a survey to evaluate collaboration technology based on innovation dgusion theory. The theory proposes five attributes of innovations that influence technology adoption: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability. Selecting items from existing surveys related to these attributes, we developed a prototype multi-scale survey to help evaluate whether using a system face-to-face or distributively influences study participants’ attitudes towards system adoption. We have begun refining the survey instrument and report on this process, the proposed survey questions, and the reliability and validity of the survey instrument.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: collaboration, information science, bibliometrics
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
G. Industry, profession and education.
Depositing user: Diane Sonnenwald
Date deposited: 14 Aug 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:04
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7975

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