스마트홈 거주자의 정보 기술 수용에 관한 연구-확장된 기술수용모델을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study attempts to analyze how the smart home residents accept smart home technology through extended technology acceptance model(TAM). The extended model is completed by adding two variables (perceived enjoyment and personal innovativeness) to the original TAM by Davis(1986). Among eight hypotheses tested, seven were accepted and one was rejected. The hypotheses that test the relationship among variables in the research model, they are proved to be statistically significant except one (H7). The accepted seven hypotheses include the influencing relationships between personal innovativeness and perceived ease of use (H1), personal innovativeness and perceived usefulness (H2), perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness (H3), perceived ease of use and enjoyment (H4), perceived usefulness and enjoyment (H5), perceived ease of use and behavioral intention (H6), and enjoyment and behavioral intention (H8). The rejected hypothesis (H7) is a hypothesis that test the relationship between the variables of perceived usefulness and behavioral intention. The rejected hypotheses is interesting in that the perceived usefulness does not influence behavioral intention statistically. This relationship is key part of TAM, however the result is different from previous studies. Most of previous studies on this subject insist that the perceived usefulness influence behavioral intention statistically. I conclude that the basic reason for this difference the settings of this study. Generally, perceived usefulness is known to directly influence the users’ behavioral intention in original TAM. However, the degree of influence in perceived usefulness depends on the technology itself and the user’s goal (Dohan and Tan, 2013). In this study, H7 is rejected. I believe the reasons of this result as two folds. First, smart home technology is not a singular technology but rather it is a system of 14 different interweaved technologies. Second, instead of perceiving it as a entirely new technology, most residents think it as a new smart phone app. because they use the technologies through smart phones or wall pads. The main contribution of this study is how smart home technology can be easily accepted by residents. If users perceived the technology easy to use, efficient, and fun, then they will easily accept the technology. Another important contribution is that this study is an exploratory and empirical study of an early stage of spatial revolution.