The mediating influence of smartwatch identity on deep use and innovative individual performance

Abstract

Given its personal and ubiquitous nature, the smartwatch can easily become infused into individuals' daily lives, social roles, and relationships. This type of intertwinement of an information technology (IT) in the daily lives of individuals creates an IT identity. To understand this phenomenon in the

Identity in the Digital Age: A Review of Information Technology Identity (ITID) Research in Information Systems

“…Also, another research idea [30] aims to study ITID formation in the context of social media by proposing that the use of social media continually modifies ITID through impression development and impression verification. Additionally, benefits of social interactions and belongingness are found to be more important to individuals than privacy risks in building their IT/smartwatch identity [35]. Finally, Oyedele and Simpson [18] show that users who see more emotional value in using entertainment streaming apps, are more likely to consider it as a central part of who they are.…”

“…So far, a number of theories are used to explain the formation of ITID within different contexts, such as self-efficacy 3 [24], [42], valence framework [35], theory of planned behavior [37], protection motivation theory [31], [38], person-environment fit [43], social identity, and role identity [28] to mention a few.…”

“…Also, IT dynamism does not have a significant relationship with ITID, indicating that in self-identifying with IT, it does not matter whether the IT is changing too much for elementary school teachers. There is also a research-inprogress attempting to understand the impact of technology affordances on identifying the self with technology (ITID), as well as the mediating role of experiences in this relationship [27], proposing that those who highly perceive enterprise social media affordances consistently look for opportunities to [18], [35] assimilate these affordances into their self-concept which in turn strengthen IT identity.…”

“…Our review of the literature reveals a number of studies dealing with social factors as significant predictors of ITID. For example, Ogbanufe and Gerhart [35] find that smartwatchenabled social interactions are important in strengthening smartwatch identity of individuals. Oyedele and Simpson [18] also confirm that when users see more social value in using entertainment streaming apps, they are more likely to consider it as an important part of who they are.…”

“…Furthermore, stronger self-identification with smartwatch increases deep use of it. It also mediates the [20], [22], [25], [26], [29], [ [35]. Two more studies aim to validate the original ITID conceptual model in the context of personal health devices: the study by Esmaeilzadeh [36] reveals that if individuals self-identify with a personal health device (PHD), they are more likely to search for previously unused feature sets of the PHDs (enhanced use), apply smart devices in additional situations, and use components of extension capabilities (extended features).…”