Adoption of Second Life in Higher Education: Comparing the Effect of Utilitarian and Hedonic Behaviours

Authors:
Nauman Saeed;Sukunesan Sinnappan
Affiliations:
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia;Faculty of Higher Education, Lilydale, Swinburne University of Technology, Lilydale, VIC, Australia
Venue:
International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Second Life is a three dimensional multi-user virtual environment within the Web 2.0 suite of applications which has gained wide spread popularity amongst educators in the recent years. However, limited empirical research has been reported on the adoption of Second Life, especially within higher education. The majority of technology adoption studies concentrate on analysing effects of utilitarian variables on adoption of a new technology however one should also focus on the hedonic effects when it comes to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies which are highly interactive, involving, multi-user and entertaining. In this paper, the authors analyse the effect of utilitarian and hedonic behaviours on adoption of Second Life in a higher education context. To achieve this goal the authors propose an extension to Davis' Technology Acceptance Model TAM by including emotional and imaginative responses as hedonic behaviours and usefulness, ease-of-use and computer self-efficacy as utilitarian behaviours. Empirical evaluation of the proposed model suggests that hedonic behaviours, emotional responses in particular, emerged as the strongest predictors of Second Life adoption. The study findings further suggest that traditional technology acceptance approaches may fall short in being able to explain the usage of today's highly interactive, multi-user and entertainment-oriented technologies.