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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2019.20.1.17

A Longitudinal Study on Customers' Usable Features and Needs of Activity Trackers as IoT based Devices  

Hong, Suk-Ki (Department of Business Administration, Dankook University)
Yoon, Sang-Chul (Department of International Trade, Dankook University)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.20, no.1, 2019 , pp. 17-24 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since the information of $4^{th}$ Industrial Revolution is introduced in WEF (World Economic Forum) in 2016, IoT, AI, Big Data, 5G, Cloud Computing, 3D/4DPrinting, Robotics, Nano Technology, and Bio Engineering have been rapidly developed as business applications as well as technologies themselves. Among the diverse business applications for IoT, wearable devices are recognized as the leading application devices for final customers. This longitudinal study is compared to the results of the 1st study conducted to identify customer needs of activity trackers, and links the identified users' needs with the well-known marketing frame of marketing mix. For this longitudinal study, a survey was applied to university students in June, 2018, and ANOVA were applied for major variables on usable features. Further, potential customer needs were identified and visualized by Word Cloud Technique. According to the analysis results, different from other high tech IT devices, activity trackers have diverse and unique potential needs. The results of this longitudinal study contribute primarily to understand usable features and their changes according to product maturity. It would provide some valuable implications in dynamic manner to activity tracker designers as well as researchers in this arena.
Keywords
Internet of Things (IoT); Activity Trackers; Longitudinal Study; Variance of Analysis (ANOVA); Word Clouding Technique;
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