期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2019
卷号：97
期号：18
页码：4738-4750
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：The rapid advancement of information and communication technologies in recent years has enabled the design and production of compact mobile devices with robust computing power. These advances have resulted in a plethora of wearable devices, including smartwatches. In particular, smartwatches are highly hyped in the information and communications technology industry for multiple functions that appeal to a broad range of user interests, fitness, health monitoring, and connect to smartphones to extend their functionality with the goal of simplifying users� lives, reducing distractions, and letting them experience the world without fussing with their phones. Despite these benefits and hypes, the smartwatch market has been declining continuously, and current sale estimates are still relatively low. Thus, this study aims to investigate the level of Malaysian individuals� intention to use a smartwatch and to identify and assess their impacts. Therefore, the study will assess the impacts of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, cost, privacy, and health risk on user�s behavioural intention to use smartwatch. A total of 501 collected data was used to test the study hypotheses using structural equation modelling technique. The results revealed the high level of Malaysian individuals� intention to use a smartwatch. Moreover, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use have a significant positive effect whereas cost, privacy, health risk did not negatively affect users� intention to use a smartwatch. The extended technology acceptance model explains 34 per cent of the variance in the intention to use a smartwatch. The findings of the study will help future researches and smartwatch developers by providing a guideline for the development of the smartwatch devices.
关键词：Wearable DEVICES; Smartwatch; Tam; User Adoption; Intention TO Use
