[AISWorld] [AJIS] New Research Articles published in the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)

[Ajis Editor]

Dear Colleagues,



The *Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)* has just published
the following 6 articles in its research article section of its volume 25:



*Effect of barrier related factors on perceived usefulness and ease of use
of social media applications in the Australian healthcare sector*

Irfanuzzaman Khan, Jennifer Loh, Abu Saleh, Ali Quazi, Majharul Talukder

majharul.talukder at canberra.edu.au

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.2625

Despite the growing popularity of social media internationally, an extant
review of the literature revealed a low rate of social media usage among
healthcare professionals. This research investigated potential barriers
that affected healthcare professionals’ behavioural intention to use social
media. A cross-sectional survey was randomly administered to healthcare
professionals working in Australian healthcare organisations. Analysis of
data via structural equation model (SEM) found that perceived trust,
privacy threats, professional boundary, facilitating conditions and
self-efficacy significantly influence the notion of perceived usefulness
and ease of use. In addition, information quality directly influences
health professionals’ perceived ease of utilising social media technology.
The result also indicated that gender moderates the relationship between
barrier-related factors and perceived usefulness and ease of use. This
study’s findings have important implications for healthcare providers and
policymakers regarding medical professionals’ perceptions of the potential
challenges in using social media as well as developing strategies to
counter misinformation against the backdrop of COVID-19.

#Socialmedia#healthcareprofessional#privacythreat#trust#perceivedusefulness#professionalboundary

*Towards a Cashless Society: The Effects of Perceived Convenience and
Security on Gamified Mobile Payment Platform Adoption*

P.C. Lai, Ewilly J.Y. Liew

ewilly.liew at monash.edu

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.2809

Integrating gamification into mobile payment platforms incentivizes people
to use digital alternatives for payment and could spur user-centric,
platform-mediated interactions. This study examines the relationship
between perceived convenience and perceived security on individual users’
intention to use a gamified mobile payment platform in Malaysia; a
developing country envisioned to build a cashless society. The partial
least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique is employed
on a sample of online users. The results show that perceived convenience
has a strong but indirect effect on the intention to use. Perceived
security has a strong and direct effect on intention to use and mediates
the relationship between perceived convenience and intention to use. The
reliability aspect of security is a top concern for users interested in
using mobile payment. The multi-functional aspect of convenience is a top
concern to attract users who are not interested in using mobile payment at
first. The study discusses theoretical and practical implications for
developing a dual strategy of ‘ensuring convenience’ and ‘assuring
security’ to encourage the gamified mobile payment platform adoption in
developing countries.

#mobilepayment#gamification#perceivedconvenience#perceivedsecurity#developingcountry

*Understanding the Perception of Information System Niche:
Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation*

Mehdi Darban

mehdi.darban at lsus.edu

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.2951

The number of niche technologies is growing, and they are getting noticed.
However, the usage dynamics of such systems have not been explored. This
study introduces the “niche” information systems (IS) construct to
differentiate between mainstream and niche technologies and to illustrate
how such differences potentially influence a person’s IS usage behavior. We
posit that niche-ness is perceptual, and a measurement to gauge an
individual’s niche perception in the domain of systems usage is desired.
Resting on Optimal Distinctiveness theory, the study develops a novel
conceptualization and operationalization of niche technology perceptions,
focusing on social networking systems. Our main contribution includes the
examination of the typology of the perceived niche, which results in the
development and validation of an eight-item instrument for perceived
technology niche through three studies. In addition, by placing the
construct in a nomological network in a fourth study, we demonstrate that
the perceived technology niche construct is related to IS continuance
intention.

#nichesystems#perceivedniche#conspicuousness#uniqueness#digitalextendedself#scaledevelopment


*Trust Types and Mediating Effect of Consumer Trust in m-payment Adoption:
An empirical Examination of Vietnamese Consumers*

*Tuan Anh Nguyen, Hiep-Cong Pham, Martin Dick, Joan Richardson*



s3641842 at student.rmit.edu.au

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.3043

This study employs a quantitative method to investigate different types of
trust in m-payment adoption. It aims to overcome the limitation of previous
studies which are a lack of differentiating trust types and investigating
any mediating effect to m-payment adoption. Data of the study was collected
in Vietnam, one of fastest growing m-payment usage markets globally in
2019. The research found significant and positive impacts of m-payment
provider trust, institution-based trust, and seller trust on the overall
consumer trust, which then fully mediates the relationships of three trust
types and m-payment adoption. The study also revealed that technology trust
is embedded in m-payment provider trust, suggesting that the m-payment
provider is considered fully responsible for ensuring technology protection
from the perspective of the m-payment consumers. The results enable
researchers to better understand trust characteristics in m-payment
adoption as well as technology adoption in general. In addition, the
findings are beneficial to practitioners such as policy makers,
consultants, and m-payment service providers to improve different elements
of consumer trust, leading to higher m-payment adoption.

#mobilepaymentadoption#consumertrust#trusttypes#technologyadoption

*Health Seekers’ Acceptance and Adoption Determinants of Telemedicine in
Emerging Economies *

Khondker Mohammad Zobair, Louis Sanzogni, Luke Houghton, Kuldeep Sandhu, Md
Jahirul Islam

k.zobair at griffith.edu.au

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.3071

This study investigates health seekers’ acceptance and adoption
determinants of telemedicine services in a rural public hospital setting in
an emerging economy using an adapted, extended Technology Acceptance Model.
The study contextualised seven broad categories of potential determinants
that significantly affect patients’ acceptance and adoption intentions:
perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, service
quality, privacy and data security, social influence, and facilitating
conditions. The partial least square structural equation modeling technique
was employed to test the conceptual model and research hypotheses. A
cross-sectional survey was administered among 500 telemedicine users in
randomly selected rural and remote areas of Bangladesh. Excluding
self-efficacy and ease of use, five determinants expressively contributed
to patients’ acceptance of telemedicine adoption, explaining 65% of the
variance (R2) in behavioural Intention. The empirical findings have the
quality of rigour obtained from rich data sets in health informatics and
can contribute to build telemedicine into an institutionalised health
infrastructure in Bangladesh and similar settings. Pertinent implications,
limitations and future research directions were recommended to secure the
long-term sustainability of telemedicine healthcare projects.

#acceptance#ICT#PLS-SEM#ruralandremoteareas#technologyacceptancemodel#telemedicine


*E-governance using mobile applications: A case study of India during the
COVID-19 pandemic*

Sandeep Goyal, Anandan Pillai, Sumedha Chauhan

sandy2u at gmail.com

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.3129

Healthcare initiatives backed by e-governance principles have contributed
well to the extant literature and practice. Governments and healthcare
systems across the world were taken aback by the swamping impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic. However, they reacted quickly by developing
contact-tracing mobile applications (apps) for creating awareness,
providing information about various healthcare initiatives, and helping
citizens to use the required information in case of emergency. The present
study analyzes the factors driving the intention to use such apps in the
context of India by empirically testing how epistemic value, convenience
value, conditional value, functional value, and privacy concerns influenced
the intention to use such an app. The study found that intention to use
such an app was positively influenced by functional value, which in turn
was positively influenced by convenience and conditional values. It
suggests that the convenience of using the app, perceived seriousness of
the pandemic (i.e., conditional value), and utilitarian benefits (i.e.,
functional value) of the contact-tracing mobile app enhanced its
acceptance. However, its novelty (i.e., epistemic value) and privacy
concerns are not significant predictors of intention to use. The study
recommends that the government should place more emphasis on improving the
functional value which is driven by convenience and context-specific
features to push the use of an e-governance initiative during the crisis.

#IntentiontoUse#COVID19#Pandemic#ContactTracingMobileapplication#Theoryofconsumptionvalues#Technologyadoption#Egovernance



Thanks for the continuing interest in our work.

Best regards

Professor Karlheinz Kautz
Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Information Systems

http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/

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Professor Karlheinz Kautz
Editor-in-Chief,
Australasian Journal of Information Systems
http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/index