Acceptance of Future Workplace Systems: How the Social Situation Influences the Usage Intention of Ambient Intelligence Technologies in Work Environments

This paper analyzes if, and in which extend, the social work situation influences the intention of potential users to employ Ambient Intelligence technologies in work environments. In a first step, existing application scenarios and prototype applications were analyzed to identify characteristic functionalities of future workplace systems. In the second step, it was tested whether potential end users are willing to employ the identified functionalities in different social situations. The results of the evaluation show, that the social work situation, in which a functionality is going to be used, has a highly significant influence on the participants ’ usage intention