The rapid growth of wearable technology has brought tremendous advances especially in smartwatch where people use them as health monitoring, productivity, and entertainment. Despite those rapid enhancements in smartwatch, there are still few research that covers the barriers and benefits of the utilization of smartwatch in developing countries like Indonesia. In this study, a quantitative approach was employed, with 209 respondents to examine the influence of 7 valuable factors which is timeliness, sufficiency, relevance, user satisfaction, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and flow experience. The study’s result reveals that five of these factors which is timeliness, sufficiency, relevance, flow experience, and perceived usefulness have significant impact on the utilization of smartwatch. However, perceived ease of use and user satisfaction doesn’t have significant impact on the utilization of smartwatch. This is may be due to difficulty endured by the users on operating smartwatch. Also users are not satisfied with the data accuracy, comfort, and features of smartwatch.

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Wearable Technology Digital Transformation: Analyzing Smartwatch Utilization for People in Indonesia

  • Jonathan William Widjaja,
  • Christian

摘要

The rapid growth of wearable technology has brought tremendous advances especially in smartwatch where people use them as health monitoring, productivity, and entertainment. Despite those rapid enhancements in smartwatch, there are still few research that covers the barriers and benefits of the utilization of smartwatch in developing countries like Indonesia. In this study, a quantitative approach was employed, with 209 respondents to examine the influence of 7 valuable factors which is timeliness, sufficiency, relevance, user satisfaction, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and flow experience. The study’s result reveals that five of these factors which is timeliness, sufficiency, relevance, flow experience, and perceived usefulness have significant impact on the utilization of smartwatch. However, perceived ease of use and user satisfaction doesn’t have significant impact on the utilization of smartwatch. This is may be due to difficulty endured by the users on operating smartwatch. Also users are not satisfied with the data accuracy, comfort, and features of smartwatch.