Acceptance of smart devices in library from the library professionals’ point of view

Cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and Internet of Things have injected new energy into the development of libraries. The smart device is the carrier of new technology, which makes abstract technology vivid to ordinary customers. The purchase of smart devices should help libraries to improve their service quality and work efficiency. Libraries have invested vast amounts of resources into the development and adoption of new technologies, but have not received prospective earnings. Many scholars in the library field have begun to pay attention to this issue, but the related research is still in a very early stage. According to the adaptive structuration theory, the factors that contribute to the success of information technology (IT) adoption fall into two broad categories: one is the degree to which the IT structure matches the current organiza-tional structure, and the other is how well organizations and individuals adapt learning behaviors to IT. This study is focused on the latter category. Some researchers have recognized the importance of customers in the adoption of library smart devices (LSD), whereas some ignore library professionals as another group using LSD. The upgrading of library services and optimization of management depend on collaborative work between library professionals and LSD. However, few studies have focused on the adoption of smart devices by library professionals. This study interviewed five library professionals and one library smart device supplier to determine the development status of LSD in China. Then, a model of factors influencing LSD adoption was proposed on the basis of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, adaptive structuration theory, and interview results. The results of this empirical study are partially consistent with previous work. These results support eight of the ten hypotheses. The two main factors that influence the adoption behavior of LSD include use intention and facilitating condition. The critical factors influencing use intention are performance expectation, social influence, and IT literacy. Surprisingly, the hypothesis of effort expectation to use intention is not supported. Moreover, IT literacy has been proved to have a significantly positive impact on effort and performance expectations

Exploring digitalization in the agricultural industry: barriers, enabling factors, and impact of digital technologies adopting

Digital transformation (DT) changes business organizations by intro- ducing innovations in all sectors, including agriculture. Organizations in the ag- ricultural industry have been implementing DT for different forms of innovation. As a result, over the years, several studies explored the adoption of digital tech- nologies in the agricultural industry, mainly focusing on the practical and applic- ative side of digital technologies and exploring single cases in which DT contrib- utes to organizational and operational change. A holistic perspective of DT in the agricultural industry is still lacking in the literature, and barriers, enablers, and findings of DT in agriculture are not present in the literature. In this paper, we present the results of a literature review to identify barriers, enabling factors, and findings of DT in the agricultural industry

Go Digital! Determinants of Continuance Usage of Mobile Payment Apps: Focusing on the Mediating Role of Gamification

Background: COVID-19 spread over the last two years has been instrumental in shifting physical banking transactions to mobile-based banking transactions. Recently, M-payments have dominated online and point-of-sale (POS) transactions in the Asia-pacific region. Therefore, there was a need to study the factors influencing M-payments. This research has been conducted to determine the significant factors influencing the usage and continuance usage of M-payment apps in an emerging country and particularly how gamified features enhance the usage of M-payments apps.is study is based on the perspectives of the Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2) and information system success (ISS) theory, and it adds three new determinants—trust, gamified features, and continued use of mobile payments to better explain and forecast users\u27 behavioral intentions and continued use of mobile payment applications (M-payments apps). Method: The research has employed two studies on sample data from young users of M-payment apps (n=898), the dataset was analyzed through structural equation modelling for mediation and moderation analysis in study one. The second study was grounded through Vignette experiments to analyze the effects of the degree of gamified features on the continued usage of M-payments. Results: The results reported that behavioral intention to adopt, and usage of mobile payments are significantly mediated by gamified features and gamified features are partially mediating continuance usage of M-payments. Trust is the key to enabling continuance usage amongst the users of M-payments. These findings extend the understanding of users’ continuance intention in the context of payments apps. Conclusion: This study would be helpful in presenting insights for the M-payments service providers and the associated banks to develop strategy for the continuance usage of mobile payment apps

Present State and Future Directions of Digital Payments System: A Historical and Bibliographic Examination

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to conduct a bibliographic analysis of digital payment systems.   Theoretical framework:  The digital payments system is a technologically advanced payment system that enables individuals, businesses, and nations to become self-sufficient, contactless, and tap-less when conducting transactions. Understanding the significance of the digital payment system is crucial.  There remains much to investigate and discover.   Design/methodology/approach:  The using of an academic search method on the Scopus database, a bibliometric study of 714 publications on digital payment systems from the year 2000 to 2022 was conducted. For this experiment, we made use of Biblioshiny, an R-based web application available in the Bibliometrix package. We were able to identify significant publications, authors, nations, and article themes by using the software's automatic technique. We studied the citations, co-citations, and social networks.   Findings:  The results were able to identify significant publications, authors, nations, and article themes by using the software's automatic technique. We studied the citations, co-citations, and social networks. The statistics revealed that the number of publications increased gradually in the early years, followed by a sharp rise between the years 2005 and 2022. These years correspond to the political attempts to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis. India conducts the most significant scientific research in this field, followed by United States and China.   Research, Practical & Social implications:  This study not only identifies the research fields in digital payment systems, but also identifies the central key themes with possible research directions, in the area of electronic money, mobile money, authentication, security, Internet of things, blockchain, FinTech, mobile banking and Covid – 19.   Originality/value:  The findings of this study may be used by policymakers to inform the design of digital payment systems, policy initiatives, and other policy measures. Banking, financial planning, and investment management professionals would understand the rising concerns completely. Therefore, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers will use the current literature while doing fresh research on the Payments system's strengths and weaknesses

Information and communication technology: Studies under the digital era

This paper focuses on the effects of technological advancement in the relationships between value creation and firm performance. Specifically, this paper will explain how the concept of internet of things (IoT) can influence value co-creation and codestruction towards firm performance from the perspective of resource-based view (RBV) and service-dominant (S-D) logic. This paper is motivated to discuss on the mentioned relationships due to four reasons. Firstly, although value co-creation has always been associated with positive implications on consumers (Terblanche, 2014); there are also some possible negative implications related to them (Grönroos, 2012). The same observation could also be happened to firm performance. For instance, increasing consumer participation will reduce firm controls on the outcome of the process. This situation would be ended up co-destructing the value through the very same consumer-firm interactions that are used in value co-creation (Terblanche, 2014). Therefore, the possibility of value co-destruction should not be overlooked (Plé & Cáceres, 2010) as it may as well affect the firm performance (Alexander, 2012). Despite of that, the numbers of studies focusing on both value co-creation and co-destruction in a single topic is still relatively low. Since the concept of value co-destruction is still in blur (Plé & Cáceres, 2010), the interrelationships between value co-creation and co-destruction need to be further explored

Embedded federated learning over a LoRa mesh network

In on-device training of machine learning models on microcontrollers a neural network is trained on the device. A specific approach for collaborative on-device training is federated learning. In this paper, we propose embedded federated learning on microcontroller boards using the communication capacity of a LoRa mesh network. We apply a dual board design: The machine learning application that contains a neural network is trained for a keyword spotting task on the Arduino Portenta H7. For the networking of the federated learning process, the Portenta is connected to a TTGO LORA32 board that operates as a router within a LoRa mesh network. We experiment the federated learning application on the LoRa mesh network and analyze the network, system, and application level performance. The results from our experimentation suggest the feasibility of the proposed system and exemplify an implementation of a distributed application with re-trainable compute nodes, interconnected over LoRa, entirely deployed at the tiny edge.This work was supported by the Spanish Government under contracts PID2019-106774RB-C21, PCI2019-111851-2 (LeadingEdge CHIST-ERA), PCI2019-111850-2 (DiPET CHIST-ERA).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version