Identifying key drivers and bottlenecks in the adoption of E-book readers in Korea

Shim, Dongnyok; Kim, Jin Gyo; Altmann, Jörn

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2015.12.009

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“…The low vision participants also declared that they used the high contrast feature for more accessible usage on mobile phones. This requirement was consistent with the findings in previous studies [61], [62], [54], [44], [47], [48], [55].…”

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Identifying the Requirements of Visually Impaired Users for Accessible Mobile E-book Applications

Hashim

Matraf

Hussain

2021

JOIV : Int. J. Inform. Visualization

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Books are a medium for communicating information and in recent years have taken the electronic form called e-books. This shift has opened new opportunities for the visually impaired in overcoming their struggles with books in the traditional paper format. Yet, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) claimed that many e-book applications do not meet needs of the visually impaired. Very few studies had investigated this subject matter hence paving the way for this current study to address the above research gap. As a result, equitable access to e-books for the visually impaired is still limited. Hence, there is now a necessity to design usable and accessible e-book interfaces for the visually impaired. To achieve this goal, it is important to identify the e-book requirements of the visually impaired into their e-book applications. An online survey was conducted involving seven visually impaired students at a local Malaysian university. The target participants’ ages are between 21 and 27 years old. The outcomes of this study identified ten requirements for accessible e-book applications for the visually impaired. Among these requirements are features that enable users to zoom, read aloud, and search for book contents. Besides that, screen reader strategy and text-to-speech are also mandatory. Other requirements include clear text and sound, ease of navigation, high contrast, and high brightness. These requirements will involve the field of Human-Computer Interaction design which is applied particularly in the development of usable and accessible mobile e-book applications for the visually impaired.

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confidence: 93%

Identifying the Requirements of Visually Impaired Users for Accessible Mobile E-book Applications

Hashim

Matraf

Hussain

2021

JOIV : Int. J. Inform. Visualization

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“…A group of consumers may also be interested in a product but unwilling to buy it. In this context, many theoretical models have been developed to explain such a hierarchical decision‐making process or attitude formation process, and empirical analysis has been conducted applying such a theoretical model (Shim, Kim, & Altmann, ). These models are very similar in that they explicitly provide three key constructs of decision making and suggest the concept as a sequential process.…”

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Modelling the consumer decision‐making process to identify key drivers and bottlenecks in the adoption of environmentally friendly products

2018

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This paper empirically identifies the attitude‐behaviour gap phenomenon, which has been witnessed frequently in environmentally friendly products, by suggesting a general and flexible Bayesian multivariate model and applying it to survey data. Since cognitive, affective and conative stages, which are closely related to the attitude‐behaviour gap, are successive stages in the consumer decision‐making process, these must be considered simultaneously in empirical analysis. For this reason, a recursive multivariate probit model is proposed. According to the empirical analysis, the affective stage (interest and preference) does not lead to the conative stage (intention to use and intention to purchase) in an analysis of eco‐friendly detergent. By contrast, in an electric vehicle analysis, the affective stage partially influences the conative stage through the relationship between preference and usage intention, and through the relationship between interest and purchase intention. It was also found that high compatibility and low complexity must be emphasized in eco‐friendly detergent, and that high relative advantage and compatibility must be emphasized for an electric vehicle in order to bridge the attitude‐behaviour gap successfully.

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“…People have changed the way they read books with the advancement of information and communication technology and digitalization (Lee, 2013). Specifically, various forms of data have been transferred to electronic formats that allow users to access information through computer screens, and which have been broadly accepted by the public (Gupta, 2011; Shim et al , 2016). More users can access e-books whenever and wherever they wish by downloading content to their devices from any online site which offers such files (Wu and Chen, 2011; Vasileiou et al , 2009; Gebregiorgis and Altmann, 2015).…”

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Investigating the determinants of e-book adoption

Hsu

Lin

Chen

et al. 2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the key factors that affect users’ adoption of e-books using an extension of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) that includes the following factors: environmental concerns, perceived benefits, and benevolence trust. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyzed survey responses from 343 participants using structural equation modeling to examine the hypothesized relationships in this research model. Findings The results show that users’ adoption of e-books is determined by performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, environmental concern, perceived benefit, and benevolence trust. Research limitations/implications The authors restricted this study to consumers’ adoption of e-books. Further studies could examine consumer’s adoption of other mediums, such as cutting-edge information technologies. Practical implications The results suggest that marketers should consider altering their methods of promoting e-books to attract consumers and further affect their usage intention. Originality/value This study proposes and tests an extended UTAUT model that includes the additional factors of environmental concern, perceived benefit, and benevolence trust in order to examine the influence of these factors on e-book adoption. The findings are particularly useful for assisting managers to increase e-book adoption.

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Identifying key drivers and bottlenecks in the adoption of E-book readers in Korea

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

Identifying the Requirements of Visually Impaired Users for Accessible Mobile E-book Applications

Identifying the Requirements of Visually Impaired Users for Accessible Mobile E-book Applications

Modelling the consumer decision‐making process to identify key drivers and bottlenecks in the adoption of environmentally friendly products

Investigating the determinants of e-book adoption

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