Information Technology Reference
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Chapter V
An Extension of the
Technology Acceptance Model
to Determine the Intention to
Use Biometric Devices
Tabitha James
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Taner Pirim
Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research, USA
Katherine Boswell
University of Louisiana - Monroe, USA
Brian Reithel
University of Mississippi, USA
Reza Barkhi
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
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Protection of physical assets and digital information is of growing importance to society. The need
for development and use of security technologies is ever increasing. As with any new technology, user
acceptance of new software and hardware devices is often hard to gauge, and policies to introduce
and ensure adequate and correct usage of such technologies are often lacking. Security technologies
have widespread applicability to different organizational contexts that may present unusual and varied
adoption considerations. This study adapts the technology acceptance model and extends it to study the
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