An Empirical Study on the Innovation Acceptance of Wearable Mobile Computing: Pervasive Computing Perspective

Abstract

Extant literature on the acceptance of mobile computing has been developing in mobile banking services and in healthcare service, however, the study of users' acceptance of emerging wearable mobile computing is still at the early stages. This paper examines the development of a conceptual framework to understand the technology adoption factors for wearable mobile computing utilizing the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI) and related factors on mobility and pervasive computing. Data of 272 respondents were collected using survey based questionnaires conducted in Malaysia. The findings of this research revealed the factors of mobility (MOB), personalization (PN) and perceived enjoyment (PE) achieved the highest average score by respondents, followed by perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEU), observability (OBS), facilitating condition (FC) and social influence (SI). Mobility (MOB) and perceived enjoyment (PE) contribute the dominant factors for usage acceptance, while Perceived Usefulness (PU) from the established model TAM, still plays an important factor in predicting innovation adoption of wearable mobile computing.