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Why Users Comply with Wearables: The Role of Contextual Self-Efficacy in Behavioral Change
Journal
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2021-01
Author(s)
Abstract
Wearables provide great opportunities for improving personal health, but research challenges their capacity to evoke behavioral change effectively. Realizing the full potential of wearables requires a better understanding of users’ behavior change processes. Based on self-efficacy theory, we investigate how wearables influence users’ perceptions of their self-efficacy and subsequent health behavior. Using narrative interviews with twenty-five long-term wearable users, we show that wearables can have both positive and negative effects on users’ perceptions of their self-efficacy and that these perceptions are subject to internal and external contexts, which can positively or negatively affect users’ compliance. We also find that the internal context may have a compounding or neutralizing effect on self-efficacy, despite an adverse external context. Our study shows the contextual and transient nature of self-efficacy,
thus contributing to self-efficacy theory and research on wearables and offering practical design implications.
thus contributing to self-efficacy theory and research on wearables and offering practical design implications.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Volume
37
Number
3
Start page
281
End page
294
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Division(s)
Eprints ID
261095