Circular economy is gaining attention in business and society to advance sustainability. This paradigm is particularly relevant for energy-consuming products such as washing machines, where alternatives to linear economy such as pay-per-use and refur...
Reliable assessment methods of driver acceptance are needed due to increased interest in high levels of autonomous driving systems. Subjective evaluation methods have mostly been utilized to assess the acceptance of newly developed advanced driver as...
A single technological advancement in the business sector tremendously changed customers’ lifestyles and consumption behavior. Drone technology is one of the main revolutions that increase business efficiency at a lower cost. However, the accep...
Augmented Reality (AR) has emerged as a promising educational tool, offering new opportunities to enhance learning through immersive and interactive experiences. This study aimed to evaluate the degree of acceptance of AR by secondary school students...
Background: Pancreas transplantation (PTX) remains the most effective treatment to prevent long-term complications and provide consistent euglycemia in patients with endocrine pancreatic insufficiency, mainly in type I diabetic patients. Considering...
As a sustainable innovation, offering additional services for products (ASP) is rapidly emerging as an increasingly important consideration for manufactories. Although additional services can increase enhance product utility, there is no guarantee th...
Nowadays, through the Internet, cultural heritage reaches broader audiences via digital platforms that manage and disseminate cultural content formulating a common sense in societies and supporting society’s cohesion. Various cultural heritage...
Based on three theories—the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), and Responsible Environmental Behavior (REB)—the present study proposes a model of AI product factors and pro-e...
Integrating new visualization methods based on virtual reality (VR) in the design evaluation process remains a challenge despite its expanding use in architectural design in recent years. This article proposes a VR-based evaluation model to improve t...
Trails are important recreation settings; determining an appropriate trail usage amount to avoid unacceptable ecological impacts is important for protected areas. However, there is a lack of studies examining trail usage’s direct and indirect r...
One essential component of insurance technology (Insurtech) is peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance, which represents a transformative shift from conventional insurance to digital platforms by fostering community-based risk sharing. This study contributes to...
This study aims to evaluate the factors influencing the acceptance of augmented reality among students within an automation system. The researchers of this study adopted the technology acceptance model (TAM) and gathered data to examine the path rela...
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Teleworking is an everyday reality in today’s world. Many companies are opting for this way of working remotely, as it improves employers’ satisfaction along with the work–life balance and it does not lead to any significant reducti...
Background/Objectives: Medicine acceptability is crucial for paediatric drug development, yet its assessment remains challenging due to the multifaceted nature of sensory attributes like taste, smell, and mouthfeel. Traditional methods of acceptabili...
The growing demand for functional and sustainable foods has driven food innovation, enhancing its nutritional value. This study aimed to develop a nutritious bread using local rye from the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal and incorporating wh...
This research evaluates a novel, modular, open-source, and low-cost educational robotic platform in Educational Robotics and STEM Education. It is the sequel of an action research cycle on which the development of this robot is based. The impetus for...
Family acceptance is one of the strongest predictors of mental health in youth with diverse sexual orientations and genders (LGBTQ+) In Latinx communities, where the values of familismo, machismo, and religion may present as both strengths and barrie...
This research presents a mixed methods (qual-QUANT) approach to the evaluation of the intention to consume hemp foods in an Australian sample soon after its legalization, using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Structural equation modeling was us...
With the increasing proportion of Distributed Generation (DG) in distribution networks and growing electricity business expansion demand, the integration of DG and new loads imposes significant impacts on distribution networks. To address the incompl...
This study presents results of a survey-based analysis on user acceptance of wireless electric vehicle charging. A structural equation model is developed based on Davis’ technology acceptance model (TAM). It is expanded integrating elements of Ajzen’...
In pediatrics, acceptability has emerged as a key factor for compliance, and consequently for treatment safety and efficacy. Polyvalent mechanical bacterial lysate (PMBL) in 50-mg sublingual tablets is indicated in children and adults for the prophyl...
This systematic integrative review examines methodological frameworks used to evaluate educational technologies in biomedical higher education. We synthesize five complementary approaches frequently reported in the literature: the Technology Acceptan...
Children’s vegetable intake is too low, and a key barrier to the inadequate intake is low acceptance. To facilitate successful development of new vegetable-based products for children, a sensory science approach to product development has been...
Declared airport capacity is a key parameter in flight scheduling. The evaluation method for airport capacity primarily relies on computer simulation, and the capacity assessment results are dependent on the determination of the acceptable delay leve...
The goal of providing smart city services is not only simply building smart technology and infrastructure but also improving the quality of life of citizens who use smart city services and have positive experiences. This requires establishing service...
(1) Background: in the last decade, various investigations into the field of robotics have created several opportunities for further innovation to be possible in student education. However, despite scientific evidence, there is still strong scepticis...
Understanding students’ acoustic evaluation in learning environments is crucial for identifying acoustic issues, improving acoustic conditions, and enhancing academic performance. However, predictive models are not specifically tailored to pred...
AI-enabled technology (AI) has a transformational role in our modern society because it is increasingly used as an interaction partner, making anthropomorphism (tendency to ascribe human features to non-human agents) a central mechanism shaping how p...
Under the background of renewable-dominated electric power system construction, the penetration rate of low-carbon and renewable distributed generation (DG) in distribution network is increasing, which has changed the form and operation mode of the d...
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the water quality of different rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems and the social acceptance of their reuse in young users as an exploratory approach. Three RWH systems were implemented, and the quality...
This research addresses two specific knowledge gaps. The first regards the influence of domestic low-carbon technology (LCT) installation approaches and occupier status on user acceptance. The second is to demonstrate the role of machine learning tec...
This study explores the acceptance of different wood coverages on building facades with the aim of optimization of materials, and in turn improving overall sustainability. It firstly develops the principal physical variables and evaluation criteria;...
As technology continues to advance, chatbots are likely to become an increasingly vital tool in education. This study digs further into how students perceive and accept chatbots for use in learning activities. The study examines the integrated relati...
This study investigates the impact of generative AI systems like ChatGPT on semi-structured decision-making, specifically in evaluating undergraduate dissertations. We propose using Davis’ technology acceptance model (TAM) and Schulz von Thun&r...
19 June 2020
Public acceptance of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is vital for a society to reap their intended benefits such as reduced traffic accidents, land usage, congestion and environmental pollution. The purpose of this paper is to use the theory of planned beh...
Background: An external evaluation is crucial before clinical applications; however, only a few gentamicin population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) models for critically ill patients included it in the model development. In this study, we aimed to evaluate...
This study utilized the newly-designed Bayesian equal part regression (BEPR) model to analyze the Taiwan National Security surveyed data from 2015 in order to construct a model of Taiwanese people’s regime acceptance of Mainland China and U.S g...
It is essential to consider the acceptable threshold in the assessment of a hydrological model because of the scarcity of research in the hydrology community and errors do not necessarily cause risk. Two forecast errors, including rainfall forecast e...
Innovations like autonomous delivery vehicles (ADV) have the potential to transform last-mile delivery to make it more sustainable and human-centered. Yet only if these technologies are socially acceptable can they live up to their potential. Using t...
The rapid development of smart technologies and data analytics empowers most industries to evolve their systems and introduce innovative applications. Consequently, smart metering technology, an internet of things-based application service, is diffus...
This study builds on Davis’ TAM by integrating environmental and psychological variables relevant to AI medical diagnostics. This study developed a mathematical theoretical model called the “AI medical diagnosis-acceptance evaluation mode...
The task of automatically evaluating acceptability judgments has relished increasing success in Natural Language Processing, starting from including the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLa) in the GLUE benchmark dataset. CoLa spawned a thread th...
This current empirical study aims at investigating the incorporation of consumer innovativeness in TAM and UTAUT in the development of a golf app and how these influence consumer behavioral intentions in adopting the golf app. These models help illus...
Palatability is a recognized driver of medicine acceptability in pediatrics but deemed less relevant in older populations due to sensory decline. Preliminary findings from an observational study implicated palatability problems with one Alzheimer&rsq...
Warning system for pedestrians (WSP), one of cooperative intelligent transport system (C-ITS) applications, is designed to increase safety for pedestrians but also for drivers and other road users. The evaluation of end-user acceptance and perception...
Augmented Reality (AR) is increasingly influential in education. AR technology allows users to learn and practice in a simulated environment that enables repetition, correction, and failure without risk. The present study evaluated users’ attit...
This study evaluated the physicochemical characteristics, antioxidant properties, and consumer acceptance of a traditional Korean snack nurungji blended with barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). The antioxidant activity of β-glucan was identified in bar...
Advancements in IoT technology have been instrumental in the design and implementation of various ubiquitous services. One such design activity was carried out by the authors of this paper, who proposed a novel cloud-centric IoT-based disaster manage...
Wood plays a key role in the endeavours of the EU to establish a circular bioeconomy based on renewable biological resources. Today, forestry on its own cannot sustainably satisfy the demand for woody biomass. Short-Rotation Coppice (SRC) represents...
This paper studies shopper acceptance for using beacons in the purchase process. The main goal is to examine shopper response to beacon-triggered promotions and propose a model that would help retail practitioners plan the implementation of beacons i...
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