This document discusses Everett Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory. It outlines the five stages of the innovation-decision process: knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. It also discusses perceived characteristics of innovations that influence adoption rates, including relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability. Finally, it compares Rogers' stages of the innovation-decision process to the hierarchy-of-effects model and Prochaska's stages of change model.