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. 2022 Mar 11;8:e886. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.886

Table 2. The original UTAUT factors.

Factor Description
Use Behavior (UB) Describes the user’s actual use of a specific system (Teo et al., 2003), which is dominated by behavioral intention (BI).
Behavioral Intention to Use AT (BI) Specifies ”the person’s subjective possibility of performing the in question conducts” (Rice & Shook, 1988). BI to use technology has a direct positive impact on usage pattern (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000; Karahanna & Straub, 1999).
Performance Expectancy (PE) Describes an individual’s assessment of how much they anticipate that the technology will help them to execute tasks better (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000). Components from the DOI theory (Bandura, 1977) are used to calculate PE.
Effort Expectancy (EE) EE is the degree of adaptability linked to use the technology (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000).
Social Influence (SI) ”The degree to which an individual asses how others believe he or she should use the new system,” (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000)
Facilitating Conditions (FC) FC defines the degree to which a person perceives that an organization and its technical infrastructure is committed to supporting technology usage (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000)