Timothy Teo (Ph.D.)

專題講座：《Why People Use Technology:Findings From Technology

Acceptance Research》

時間：2021年5月26日(三)13:20-15:10

地點：Microsoft Teams線上演講

主持人:王淳民副教授

主講人: Teo Timothy, Ph.D.(Professor of Education, Murdoch University Hon. Chair Professor, NTHU)

參與人數：169

活動流程/內容：

From the definition of technology, and it benefits to us such as promoting productivity, improving coordination, enabling equality of education, and individualizing the learning process, the speaker shows us the basic concept of technology acceptance.

Then, the speaker introduces Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), to see how people choose the technology and how they use them to change or manipulate their environment, the motivation could be technology-centered, human-centered, or environment-centered.

l Technology-centered paradigm

People think from the technology will concern whether it is good enough for people to use, several contributes such as compatibility would be examined to evaluate usefulness of technology, and quality would be used to evaluate its benefits.

l Human-centered paradigm

Professor Timothy use a animation video that a young man talking about the difficulties his elder family member encountering, to bring in the concern of human-centered paradigm, which cares more on gender, age and user experience. These human factors will influence both the perceived usefulness as well as perceived ease of use of certain technology, affect our self-efficacy of them, and finally result to different attitude of intention.

l Environment-centered paradigm

People also figure out how helpful the environment is for people to use technology, the facilitating conditions or technological supports from others would help enhance the perceived ease of use of technology.

In the last part of the speech, the speaker shows some research of technology acceptance which help us to know more about how technology influence us, and which factors matter when technology is showing its influence. Also, a general conclusion is given that human factors are influential in technology acceptance among various research.

學生心得(精選)

學生A

Timothy Teo 教授的講座以全英講述的模式，內容十分豐富且完整，讓聽眾 能接收到許多與科技相關的多層面知識。採用英語授課在正確度與精準度在一 些專有名詞、研究資料的精確度確實提升許多，但建議教授可以在簡報中鑲嵌 一些中文翻譯或解釋，這樣較能讓初次學習到此課堂內容的聽眾快速且清楚地 抓住重點。很謝謝教授這場精彩的演講，真的是收穫滿滿!

雖然是遠距，但老師本身的投影片和演講內容就格外豐富，吸收了很多知識和反思，整堂課上的我都非常有精神，整體我都覺得很棒!另外老師做的事情也是直得我去學習的。也留給我了很大的思考問題去做後續的自我省思，很有收穫，謝謝講者。

學生B

I think Teo Timothy, Ph.D. is very kind. The content of the speech is very practical and far-sighted. Therefore, I feel that I spent a full two hours. I very much agree that technology is the future trend, and it is also necessary to apply technology to education. Then, after hearing Teo Timothy, Ph.D. introduced these trends, I felt that I benefited a lot. Like understand the relationship and application of technology and education, and finally hope that I can discover more foresight. Do my best for education!

學生C

As a student from education and learning technology department, I thought that the speech is so important to me, and it also urged me to know and understand the idea of technology more. I believe that the knowledge l was learned from the speech will become nutrients when I devote myself to the teaching field in the future.

學生D

The teacher is very attentive in the production of ppt. In addition to the neat layout, the presentation of the key points is also very clear, so that I can quickly grasp the key points through the presentation of the ppt while listening to the lecture.

The continuity of the content of the speech and the connection to life are also sufficient. On the whole, it is an attractive speech that can be connected to the student's experience.

學生E

I think this lecture is the best one since the online class. Although there was a short period of time waiting for the lecturer to enter the online classroom, the lecture process was very fluently. The best thing is that it is also very when playing the video. Thanks for the teachers and teaching assistance, so the final speech can be perfectly.

Besides, what I want to talk about is lecturer’s thoughtfulness. Some parts of the speech are not so easy for us to understand, but I can clearly feel that the lecturer slows down in when explaining to us. The more difficult words that we might not understand will also be repeated in Chinese by lecturer, made sure everyone understands it before continuing.