TY - JFULL AU - Sameh Al-Natour and Izak Benbasat PY - 2014/10/ TI - Different Views and Evaluations of IT Artifacts T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 1744 EP - 1750 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004025 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 93, 2014 N2 - The introduction of a multitude of new and interactive e-commerce information technology (IT) artifacts has impacted adoption research. Rather than solely functioning as productivity tools, new IT artifacts assume the roles of interaction mediators and social actors. This paper describes the varying roles assumed by IT artifacts, and proposes and distinguishes between four distinct foci of how the artifacts are evaluated. It further proposes a theoretical model that maps the different views of IT artifacts to four distinct types of evaluations. ER -