| dc.description.abstract | With advances in technologies, the smart home(SH) has become a trend of our future living. The home gateway(HG) plays the center role in the smart home; most of the SH appliances are connected to Internet through the HG to provide services. Parental Control
(PAC) is a conceptual service in the SH; it aims to help parents control their children on their behaviors of accessing Internet. However, PAC service is not widely used among SH users.
In this study, we implement three PAC functions on top of a Linux-based HG, and provide some SH users who have already been parents with such functions in their HGs. We then use
the technology acceptance model(TAM), combined with the theory of reasoned action(TRA), along with two extra factors, the sense of trust and the sense of perceived risk, to investigate the impact of the factors, such as the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective
norms, sense of trust, and sense of perceived risks, on the intention to use PAC functions in the SH.
Totally 36 pairs of parents participated the investigation; they experienced the use of the PAC function. We issued questionnaires to collect data about their experiences of using the PAC function and retrieved 32 effective questionnaires, which means the effective response rate is 88%. Finally, we use Pearson correlation coefficient and statistical significance p-value to analyze the data. We have the following conclusions.
1. The perceived ease of use has significant positive effects on the perceived usefulness.
2. The perceived usefulness has significant positive effects on the attitude toward using.
3. The perceived ease of use has significant positive effects on the attitude toward using.
4. The attitude toward using has significant positive effects on the intention to use.
5. The perceived risk has negative effects on the attitude toward using.
6. The sense of trust has significant positive effects on the subjective norm.
7. The subjective norm has significant positive effects on the intention to use. | en_US |