Acceptance of an Online Voting System at the Catholic University Institute of Buea

Literature Review

Since its introduction in 1989 by Fred Davis, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has gone through validation, extension and elaboration, benefiting from the works of renown authors and partially defining the academic discipline of information and communication technology. The model proffers that the perceived ease-of-use and the perceived usefulness of a technology are the principal constructs that determine user behavioral intension and actual use towards a particular technology. An earlier systematic review (Lee et al., 2003) of articles relating to TAM highlighted the stages of the model's metamorphosis (Introduction, Validation, Extension and Elaboration) and expressed the need “…to develop the next generation TAM that synthesizes the previous effects and to resolve the limitations raised by previous studies.” (Lee et al., 2003, p. 757).