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Numerous studies have examined and predicted the usage of e-commerce Web sites using the Technology Acceptance Model and its primary constructs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Smith (2008) conducted an empirical study of four e-commerce Web sites with participation from a unique and often understudied segment of the population - the senior generation. In addition, he called for additional research on the same e-commerce Web sites with participants from today's student population, a generation that has grown up with computers and the Internet. During the Spring 2008 semester, the authors duplicated Smith's research and conducted a field experiment with a purposeful sample of students enrolled in four courses in the School of Information Technology at Macon State College. Consistent with the conclusion by Smith, of significant worth is the test of the robustness of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) when applied to e-commerce adoption by both the senior generation and the net generation. The model’s predictive and explanatory capabilities still hold true. This is the only study we know of that compares two generations and their perceptions of e-commerce Web sites.

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Numerous studies have examined and predicted the usage of e-commerce Web sites using the Technology Acceptance Model and its primary constructs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Smith ( 2008) conducted an empirical study of four e-commerce Web sites with participation from a unique and often understudied segment of the population -the senior generation. In addition, he called for additional research on the same e-commerce Web sites with participants from today's student population, a generation that has grown up with computers and the Internet. During the Spring 2008 semester, the authors duplicated Smith's research and conducted a field experiment with a purposeful sample of students enrolled in four courses in the School of Information Technology at Macon State College. Consistent with the conclusion by Smith, of significant worth is the test of the robustness of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) when applied to e-commerce adoption by both the senior generation and the net generation. The model's predictive and explanatory capabilities still hold true. This is the only study we know of that compares two generations and their perceptions of e-commerce Web sites.

The 3GPP IMS is a next generation network architecture aimed at bringing the features and rich services of the Internet to the telephony world. Traditionally telephony products are developed by large companies with access to the proprietary solutions required for PSTN products. However, the shift to a packet-switched architecture and open Internet protocols has increased the developer base to include the huge community of web-developers.Consequently there are currently several open source software projects that aim to provide proof-of-concept implementations and research tools for promoting the development and adoption of IMS technologies. This work investigates the tools created by four open source IMS projects and incorporates these tools into a practical IMS test-bed framework. Evaluations are performed that demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of these tools in providing rich services to IMS users.