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How Conservative Are Scientists?

This week, I ran a workshop at a VIBEvents conference on Laboratory Data Management in Munich on the subject of The Integrated Laboratory of the Future.   Within the class, whilst we were talking about the current constraints on achieving a fully integrated environment, there was a specific point raised about our limited outlook as [...]

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Are your users revolting?

We had an interesting discussion on getting user buy-in at the IQPC meeting on Data Management and Knowledge Discovery in Frankfurt Germany.  User buy-in, or technology adoption, to give it a more formal name, is usually one of the key success criteria for any multi-user system.  Put more bluntly, if the users don’t like the [...]

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The Technology Acceptance Model

The Technology Acceptance Model is an information systems theory that models how users come to accept and use a technology.

The model suggests that when users are presented with a new software package, a number of factors influence their decision about how and when they will use it. The main ones are:

Perceived usefulness [...]

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The Technology Adoption S-Curve and the Assimilation Gap

The technology adoption S-curve identifies seven phases in the adoption process:

Contact Awareness Understanding Trial Use/Training Adoption Institutionalisation Internalisation

The assimilation gap is the gap between acquisition (the objective) and deployment (the reality).

In practice, it is not uncommon to find that the first time that users have any engagement in a deployment project [...]

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Technology Adoption & Crossing The Chasm

The subject of technology adoption has been well researched over a number of decades.  Several anthropological studies have been published that offer quantitative evidence of user reaction to new technologies.  I started to look into this issue a few years ago in the light of some good and bad experiences with user buy-in in laboratory [...]

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