Saad Alharbi

Work place: Taibah University /Computer Science Department, Medina, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: stharbi@taibahu.edu.sa

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Research Interests: Applied computer science, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer systems and computational processes, Theoretical Computer Science

Biography

Saad T. Alharbi is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering Faculty in Taibah University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). He earned his PhD in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from University of Bradford, UK. His current research interest in cloud computing, technology acceptance and optimization especially bio-inspired evolutionary algorithms. He has got several published articles in journals and conferences. He served as the head of department for three years and served as the dean of information technology at Taibah University for four years. Currently, he is serving as consultant for serval IT organization.

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An Empirical Investigation on the Impact of Trust Mediated Determinants and Moderating Factors on the Adoption of Cloud Computing

By Saad Alharbi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2017.11.02, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2017

In a prior study we found out that trust is an effective factor in the acceptance and adoption of cloud computing using the UTAUT. However, various relationships from the original UTAUT were not confirmed in the extended model for cloud computing. Therefore, we present here a study aimed at investigating the mediation effect of trust on users’ attitude toward the adoption of cloud computing using UTAUT. It is also aimed to examine the role of five moderating factors which are gender, age, education, managerial level and job domain on subjects’ behavioral intention to use cloud computing services. Data were collected from 219 subjects in order to test the modified model and were analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) algorithm. Experimental results demonstrated that Performance Expectancy and Facilitating Conditions are strongly mediated by trust for the behavioral intention to adopt cloud computing. Statistical results, on the other hand, indicated that the majority of the moderating factors did not have a significant impact on the acceptance of cloud computing. The paper finally concludes with the limitations of current study and directions for future work.

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