## 7 Implications for Theory and Practice  
Acceptance of a new technology may be influenced by its merits, but it can also be affected by users' psychological barriers, such as the reluctance to change the status quo [70] and the fear of losing control [71]. Impacts of psychological barriers on consumers' attitudes and behaviors towards IoT products and applications are currently under-researched. To describe behavioral intention towards IoT products and applications, we developed the IoTAM. The integrative psychological-technological viewpoint implies that managers should consider these key factors simultaneously. The emergence of IoT products and applications has two key consequences. The first is that things will be transformed into \"smart things\", capable of enhancing existing goods, as well as creating new ones. The second is that the large network organization of these smart things will create a wired IoT infrastructure, whose anatomical layers could imitate biological ones. IoT is not just a new technology, but also a completely new way for people to interact with their \"brick-and- mortar\" environments. This study has both theoretical and practical implications. The strongest theoretical contribution is that theorizes the factors influencing consumers' behavioral intention towards IoT products and applications from an integrated perspective, including technology perceptions (e.g., perceived usefulness), social context variables (e.g., social influence) and consumers' individual psychological characteristics (e.g., long term orientation). It successfully extends several technology acceptance models, e.g., TAM, in the IoT context, which is extremely different from the context of other information systems. Internet of Things (IoT) helps other information systems to extend provided services while providing flexibility and reachability for things from anywhere to anyone worldwide [72]. What makes the IoT different is that it can function without human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction, as well as utilizing unique identifiers to share information in a network [35]. The IoT system results in the outreach from objects to other objects, and this is the basic characteristic that distinguish IoT systems from traditional information systems. This IoTAM contributes to current knowledge pertaining to consumer behavior and marketing in two ways. First, theoretical contributions on the factors of consumer behavior towards IoT products and applications is largely neglected in current consumer behavioral and information technology literature. This study tries to fill the literature gap, while calling for further studies, by identifying user mode, social influence, flexibility, long term orientation, cognitive instrumentals and cyber resilience as the additional antecedents of consumer behavioral intention towards IoT products and applications. As a result, the model integrated with technical and psychological features instills an explanation for consumers' behavioral intention, upgrades current knowledge and provides a solid base for examining multirooted models for the acceptance of newly formed technologies. Accordingly, this research's contribution for practitioners is through its provision of a grassroot template for improving their goods, in order to have a chance of targeting better current customers or attracting new ones. It was substantiated that consumers are not only interested in a useful and easy-to-use IoT product or application, but also expect to fulfil other emotions in order for a positive attitude to be created. Therefore, IoT service providers are advised to offer potential customers products and services that are flexible, challenging, dynamic, beneficial, prestigious, trustworthy and futuristic. With respect to usefulness, IoT practitioners are expected to improve the quality of life and daily performance of consumers through designing IoT products and applications that require the minimum possible effort to accomplish tasks.