Abstract
Technology adoption has received a great deal of research attention in information systems. While the results are quite consistent in workplace settings, only limited attention has been paid to assessing the conditions - e.g., adopters, context - that influence relationships in existing models. Cyberinfrastructure - integrated computing, storage, and collaborative infrastructure - represents an underexplored technology. Likewise, the adopters of this technology, i.e., researchers, represent an underexplored audience for technology adoption. In order to understand the factors influencing adoption of this technology by these users, we employ an open-ended interview among members of a scientific research community. The goal of the interview is to elicit researchers' beliefs in order to understand the reasons they do and do not choose to participate in cyberinfrastructure projects. The focus of this research is one particular cyberinfrastructure known as the iPlant Collaborative. The results of this research-in-progress will contribute to the literature on technology adoption and provide valuable guidance for research institutes and governments that fund large-scale cyberinfrastructure projects to support multi-disciplinary collaborative research.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| State | Published - 2011 |
| Event | 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific, PACIS 2011 - Brisbane, QLD, Australia Duration: Jul 7 2011 → Jul 11 2011 |
Other
| Other | 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific, PACIS 2011 |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Brisbane, QLD |
| Period | 7/7/11 → 7/11/11 |
Keywords
- Cyberinfrastructure
- Interview
- Technology adoption
- Theory of planned behaviour
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems