How do technological properties influence user affordance of wearable technologies?

IF 0.9 4区心理学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Interaction Studies Pub Date : 2019-10-07 DOI:10.1075/is.16024.shi

Donghee Don Shin

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Abstract

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.

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技术特性如何影响可穿戴技术的用户可负担性？

物联网（IoT）为人们提供了大量的机会和更高的生活质量，并驱动了大量的数据。通过借鉴可供性的概念，本研究考察了个人信息学的用户体验，重点关注可供性在技术和情感方面的本质。将定性方法和定量调查相结合，采用多种混合方法。定性方法的结果揭示了一系列与个人信息学可供性相关的因素，而用户模型的结果证实了连通性、控制性和同步性可供性在其与其他变量（即期望、确认和满意度）的潜在联系方面的重要作用。实验表明，用户的可供性在很大程度上受到具有互动倾向的个人特征的影响。这些发现暗示了个人信息学的具体认知过程，在这个过程中，技术素质是由用户的感知、特征和背景塑造的。研究结果通过来自用户具体认知过程的启发式质量评估工具为可穿戴技术奠定了基础。他们证实了将可供性作为一个有用的概念应用于物联网设计的有效性和实用性，并证明了可供性的最佳组合对物联网设计成败至关重要。

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Interaction Studies Multiple-

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3.30

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： This international peer-reviewed journal aims to advance knowledge in the growing and strongly interdisciplinary area of Interaction Studies in biological and artificial systems. Understanding social behaviour and communication in biological and artificial systems requires knowledge of evolutionary, developmental and neurobiological aspects of social behaviour and communication; the embodied nature of interactions; origins and characteristics of social and narrative intelligence; perception, action and communication in the context of dynamic and social environments; social learning.