Understanding the Adoption of Smart Wearable Devices to Assist Healthcare in China
With the development and advancement of information communication technology, smart wearable devices are playing a more and more important role in peoples’ daily lives. This study aims to investigate the adoption of smart wearable devices to assist health
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Abstract. With the development and advancement of information communication technology, smart wearable devices are playing a more and more important role in peoples’ daily lives. This study aims to investigate the adoption of smart wearable devices to assist healthcare in China. Based on the previous technology diffusion theories (e.g., TAM, IDT), a research model with ten research hypotheses was proposed in this research. The research model was empirically tested with a sample of 180 users of smart wearable devices in China. The results indicated that seven of the ten research hypotheses were significantly supported. The most significant determinant for users’ attitude towards smart wearable devices was trust. However, personal characteristics did not have a significant positive impact on both users’ attitude and behavior intention to use smart wearable devices. Keywords: Adoption
TAM Trust Smart wearable devices
1 Introduction Building smart cities has been a popular topic in China recently. Smart cities can be explained as those cities that utilize information and communication technologies with the aim to increase the life quality of their inhabitants while providing sustainable development [4]. Consequently, the cities are able to become more intelligent in their management of resources. With peoples’ increasing demand for high quality of life, healthcare has been an essential issue in peoples’ daily lives. For example, people who go to large hospitals usually need to wait for a long time to see a doctor and pay high medical costs. Having treatments in the medical community is an alternative for patients. It can save patients’ waiting time. Furthermore, primary healthcare services have low operating costs and can save a lot of expenses for patients in taking treatments and buying drugs. With the development and advancement of information communication technology, smart wearable devices (SWD) with variety of sensors are playing a more and more important role in peoples’ daily lives. Smart wearable technologies can © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 Published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. All Rights Reserved Y.K. Dwivedi et al. (Eds.): I3E 2016, LNCS 9844, pp. 280–291, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45234-0_26
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sometimes enable people to live in their own homes and monitor their own wellbeing rather than being hospitalized or institutionalized [28]. Smart wearable technologies can help patients manage their wellbeing by examining the relevant indexes. Taking the advantage of SWD, the medical community is able to make it more convenient for people to get medical treatments, optimize the allocation of resources and form a rational advanced medical system. User preferences for the use of SWD in their daily lives need to be studied before actual use of these devices becomes a common practice. To our knowledge, there is a lack of literature that explores the perceptions of peoples’ attitude towards SWD t
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