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Factors affecting individual adoption of Web based database

Team Members

Savitha Bangalore

Prabhu Rangaraju

Chandni Saxena

Introduction:

The growth of World Wide Web combined with increase in use of technology has paved the online use of any technology. Web based data base are online data base which allows the user to share the database on the web, whereas others can access it from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

Over the last two decades, a significant body of research has focused on identifying various factors that influence user acceptance behaviour of web based technology (Davis, 1989; Davis et al., 1989, Lucas and Spitler, 1999). Quite a number of studies have been published for studying the web based database (Maja Pantic et al., 2005, Antonija Mitrovic et al., 2004). Even though number of studies explains about the adoption of web based technologies, there still exists a gap in the research which needs explanation about individual adoption of web based database.

This study looks at factor affecting individual adoption of web based database from technological and user perspective. This research going to investigate web based database acceptance by combining the work done by (Mun Y Yi et al., 2003) pertaining to “Predicting the use of web-based information systems: self-efficacy, enjoyment, learning goal orientation, and the technology acceptance model” and by (Irwin T.J.Brown et al., 2002) pertaining to “Individual and Technological factors affecting perceived ease of use of web based learning technologies in a developed country”. Specifically this study investigates the impact of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, ease of finding, ease of understanding, self efficacy, computer anxiety and enjoyment on intended usage of web based database by individuals. As the web based database are increasingly expanding through research and development. This study will be

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