Agnes Jihae Kim, Kwang-Ok An, Jisun Yang, Eun-Rea Rho, Jaewoo Shim, Seon-Deok Eun
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Purpose: The Assistive Technology (AT) Open Platform supports people with disabilities, older people, and developers in co-creating new assistive products outside the business realm. To address dissatisfaction with and non-adoption of commercial assistive products, the National Rehabilitation Centre in South Korea created an AT Open Platform as an open-source AT sharing platform to research and develop appropriate assistive technology suitable for users' needs. The emerging concept of AT Open Platform is new for both assistive product users and developers in South Korea. The Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) was utilised to understand the factors influencing the adoption of the AT Open Platform and to gain further insights on its design and future use.
Materials and methods: Interviews were conducted with six potential AT Open Platform users to develop a questionnaire for predicting behavioural intention. Subsequently, we surveyed 175 potential users to validate the UTAUT2.
Results: The results revealed that behavioural intention was significantly predicted by social influence, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, and hedonic motivation.
Conclusions: The AT Open Platform should focus on both online and offline platforms to educate and facilitate the co-creation of ATs for assistive product users and makers. This study, which targeted assistive product users and developers, has significant implications for policymakers and future research in using and adopting the AT Open Platform as it reflects the actual voices of the platform's stakeholders.
目的：辅助技术（AT）开放平台支持残疾人、老年人和开发人员在商业领域之外共同创造新的辅助产品。为了解决对商业辅助产品的不满和不采用的问题，韩国国家康复中心创建了一个辅助技术开放平台，作为一个开源的辅助技术共享平台，研究和开发适合用户需求的辅助技术。对于韩国的辅助产品用户和开发者来说，辅助器具开放平台这一新兴概念都是全新的。我们利用技术接受和使用扩展统一理论（UTAUT2）来了解影响采用辅助器具开放平台的因素，并进一步了解其设计和未来使用情况：我们对六位潜在的 AT 开放平台用户进行了访谈，以编制一份预测行为意向的问卷。随后，我们对 175 名潜在用户进行了调查，以验证UTAUT2：结果显示，社会影响、绩效预期、便利条件和享乐动机对行为意向有显著的预测作用：辅助器具开放平台应同时关注线上和线下平台，以教育和促进辅助器具使用者和制造商共同创造辅助器具。本研究以辅助产品使用者和开发者为对象，反映了平台利益相关者的实际心声，对政策制定者和未来使用和采用辅助器具开放平台的研究具有重要意义。
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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