[AISWorld] JITTA Volume 12 Issue 1 published

[Marcus Rothenberger]

We are happy to announce that Volume 12 Issue 1 of the Journal of
Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) has been published.
The articles can be accessed on the AIS Electronic Library at
http://aisel.aisnet.org/jitta/.

 

In the current issue we publish two research articles that relate to the
behavior and involvement of the user. The first article (Galluch and
Thatcher 2011) examines user intentions in the context of internet
technology in the classroom.  The paper defines faithful and maladaptive use
and proposes a model that incorporates several predictors for internet use
intentions based on constructs from the technology diffusion literature.
The authors empirically test the model using data from 353 respondents using
Partial Least Square (PLS). The results support different sets of predictors
for faithful and maladaptive use; the study therefore demonstrates that the
intention to cyber-slack differs from the intention to use.  The
contributions of this article have practical implications for the use of
technology in the classroom and also call for further research on
maladaptive system use.

 

The second article (Tuunanen et al. 2011) uses a design science approach to
propose a requirements engineering procedure that helps to engage blind
users in requirements collection. The procedure incorporates techniques that
account for the needs of this user group.  The paper demonstrates the use of
the proposed procedures in a requirements collection effort for mobile
service applications.  The study evaluates the proposed procedure using a
follow-up survey to the requirements collection effort, concluding that the
major objectives of the procedure were met.  The proposed procedure is a
first step towards making requirements engineering more accessible to blind
users; the article calls for additional research towards this goal.

 

 

REFERENCES

Galluch, P.S. and J. Thatcher, "Maladaptive vs. Faithful Use of Internet
Applications in the Classroom: An Empirical Examination," Journal of
Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 2011, 12:1, pp. 5-
22.

 

Tuunanen, T., K. Peffers, and S. Hebler, "Designed Procedures for
Engineering System Feature Requirements with Users Who Are Blind," Journal
of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 2011, 12:1, pp.
23-44.

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