Abstract:
The research question that summarises the primary research goals is: How do
business people rank their intentions to use different requirements representations
for information systems? An additional goal of the research is to understand the
determinants that contribute to these intentions. Business people in this research are
defined as working people who are not in an information systems role. The
requirements representations evaluated were Prose Narrative, Image Narrative,
Diagram Narrative and Video Narrative. The results of this research show that
business people rank their intention to use the requirements representations in the
following order: Prose Narrative, Image Narrative, Diagram Narrative and Video
Narrative. The determinants that influence the intention to use a representation are:
Job Performance, Effort, Attitude to a Representation, Social Influence, Facilitating
Conditions, Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Freedom of Choice, Experience, Age and
Gender. This research shows that the influence of each of these determinants on the
intention to use a representation is significantly different for each requirements
representation.
