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Short Message Service (SMS) Usage Among People with Visual Impaired: An Empirical Study

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This study aims to examine the factors influencing the adoption of SMS among people with visual impaired and to investigate the SMS adoption as a main mechanism for sending messages among them. Cross-sectional data from 133 individuals with visual impaired who are using SMS were collected and used structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the possible predictive relationships among the variables in the conceptual framework and hypotheses developed. Our findings demonstrate that usefulness is the main factor that influencing the adoption of SMS among people with visual impaired. Nonetheless, there is insufficient empirical evidence to support the relationship between ease of use, enjoyment, and perceived fees. This study also found that SMS is the main mechanism for sending messaging for visual impaired community. The benefits such as ease of use should not be neglected in the development of new functions and enhancement of service features especially for visual impaired community.

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  1. Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang, 26400, Bandar Tun Razak Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia

    Mohd Aidil Riduan Awang Kader, Roslina Ali, Nor Khairunnisa Mat Yunus & Shamsul Nizam Mohamed Badri

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    Suhana Mohezar Ali

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Kader, M.A.R.A., Ali, S.M., Ali, R., Yunus, N.K.M., Badri, S.N.M. (2016). Short Message Service (SMS) Usage Among People with Visual Impaired: An Empirical Study. In: Abdullah, M., Yahya, W., Ramli, N., Mohamed, S., Ahmad, B. (eds) Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1458-1_72

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