How do technological properties influence user affordance of wearable technologies?

Donghee Shin, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Interaction Studies

Publication Date

10-7-2019

Abstract

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. The Internet of things (IoT) affords people plenty of opportunities and a higher quality of life as well as drives a huge amount of data. By drawing on the concept of affordances, this study examines the user experience of personal informatics focusing on the technological and affective nature of affordance. A multi-mixed approach is used by combining qualitative methods and a quantitative survey. Results of the qualitative methods revealed a series of factors that related to the affordance of personal informatics, whereas results of the user model confirmed a significant role for connectivity, control, and synchronicity affordance regarding their underlying link to other variables, namely, expectation, confirmation, and satisfaction. The experiments showed that users' affordances are greatly influenced by personal traits with interactivity tendency. The findings imply the embodied cognition process of personal informatics in which technological qualities are shaped by users' perception, traits, and context. The results establish a foundation for wearable technologies through a heuristic quality assessment tool from a user embodied cognitive process. They confirm the validity and utility of applying affordances to the design of IoT as a useful concept, as well as prove that the optimum mix of affordances is crucial to the success or failure of IoT design.

ISSN

1572-0373

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Volume

20

Issue

2

First Page

307

Last Page

338

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Affordance, Embodied cognition, Internet of Things, Personal traits, South Korea, User experience, Wearable device, Wearable technologies

Scopus ID

85073807789

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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