Technology-Push or User-Pull? The Slow Death of the Transfer-of-Technology Approach to Intelligent Support Systems Development

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Author(s): Teresa Lynch (Central Queensland University, Australia)and Shirley Gregor (Australian National University, Australia)
Copyright: 2003
Pages: 23
Source title: Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements of Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Steve Clarke (University of Hull Business School, UK), Elayne Coakes (University of Westminster, UK), M. Gordon Hunter (University of Lethbridge, Canada)and Andrew Wenn (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-104-9.ch008

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Computing / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter describes a study of the adoption of intelligent support systems in agriculture. The aim was to investigate the apparent low uptake of these systems and the approaches used in development–whether ‘user-pull’ or ‘technology-push.’ Data was collected for 66 systems, mainly through telephone interviews. An interpretative approach to research was adopted. The nature of user influence in the development process and the nature of the outcomes for the systems were found to be complex and multidimensional constructs. A pattern emerged showing the technology-push approach was associated with low levels of user influence in the development process and comparatively low levels of system impact. This relationship was more evident in systems developed by government organizations.

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