ABSTRACT The evaluation process of agricultural Decision Support Systems (agDSSs) is mostly based on verification and validation criteria which reflect the viewpoint of one or a few persons, who are mostly involved in the development process. However, usability evaluation is regarded as very important criteria, which measures acceptance of IT-based innovations, involving as many people and reference groups as possible to produce more realistic results related to their adoption. To date, researchers have used many technology acceptance models (TAM) to measure likely adoption chances of innovation or technology. However, the frequency and scope of such studies in agDSSs are predominantly very low, which is attributed to the technical limitations of contemporary TAMs to consider social, organizational and environmental externalities of farmers’ perceptions, behaviors and attitudes beyond “technical aspects” in an explicit manner. Therefore, we are presenting a usability based evaluation framework for the agDSSs considering attitudes, mind-sets, social, organizational, environmental and cultural contexts beyond ‘technical perspective’ to help and support DSS practitioners with the key contributing factors. The proposed framework has been used to investigate the user’s acceptance of agDSS developed for Insect-Pest and Nutrient Management of apple (AIP&NM) in India.

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农业决策支持系统评估的集成技术接受模型

摘要农业决策支持系统（agDSS）的评估过程主要基于验证和确认标准，这些标准反映了一个或几个主要参与开发过程的人员的观点。但是，可用性评估被认为是非常重要的标准，它衡量对基于IT的创新的接受程度，涉及尽可能多的人员和参考群体，以产生与采用创新相关的更现实的结果。迄今为止，研究人员已经使用了许多技术接受模型（TAM）来衡量创新或技术的采用可能性。但是，agDSS中此类研究的频率和范围主要很低，这归因于当代TAM在考虑社会，农民对“技术方面”以外的看法，行为和态度的组织和环境外部性进行了明确规定。因此，我们为agDSS提供了一个基于可用性的评估框架，该框架考虑了除“技术角度”以外的态度，思维方式，社会，组织，环境和文化背景，以帮助和支持DSS从业者并提供了关键的贡献因素。拟议的框架已用于调查用户对为印度的苹果的病虫害和营养管理（AIP＆NM）开发的agDSS的接受程度。超越“技术视角”的环境和文化背景，以关键的作用因素帮助和支持DSS从业人员。拟议的框架已用于调查用户对为印度的苹果的病虫害和营养管理（AIP＆NM）开发的agDSS的接受程度。超越“技术视角”的环境和文化背景，以关键的作用因素帮助和支持DSS从业人员。拟议的框架已用于调查用户对为印度的苹果的病虫害和营养管理（AIP＆NM）开发的agDSS的接受程度。