Wearables can help me learn: A survey of user perception of wearable technologies for learning in everyday life
Wearables can help me learn: A survey of user perception of wearable technologies for learning in everyday life
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DOI：
10.1007/s10639-021-10726-6
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发表时间：
2021-09
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Neha Rani;S. Chu
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作者：
Neha Rani;S. Chu
可穿戴设备是一类流行的便携式无处不在的技术。这些设备有多种形式，从智能眼镜到智能戒指。智能可穿戴设备附着在身体上的事实使其特别适合融入人们的日常生活。因此，我们认为可穿戴设备对于帮助人们在日常活动中理解不同类型的信息和情况特别有用，换句话说，有助于支持日常生活中的学习。此外，不同形式的可穿戴设备具有不同的可供性，导致不同的感知和偏好，具体取决于使用的目的和环境。虽然在学习环境中对可穿戴设备的使用进行了研究，但它大多局限于特定的设置，并且通常只探索可穿戴设备在特定任务中的使用。本文提出了一项针对 70 名参与者的在线调查，旨在了解用户对如何使用可穿戴设备支持日常生活中的学习的偏好和看法。提出了使用可穿戴设备进行学习的多种方式。询问信息是最常见的以学习为导向的用途。智能手表/腕带，其次是智能眼镜，是支持学习的最受欢迎的可穿戴设备。我们的调查结果还表明，用于学习的可穿戴设备类型的选择与之前的可穿戴设备体验相关，并且随着健身追踪器体验的增加，可穿戴设备的感知社会影响力显着下降。总体而言，我们的研究表明，可穿戴设备在日常生活中的学习方面具有尚未开发的潜力，并且不同的外形尺寸被认为可以提供不同的功能并用于不同的目的。
Wearable devices are a popular class of portable ubiquitous technology. These devices are available in a variety of forms, ranging from smart glasses to smart rings. The fact that smart wearable devices are attached to the body makes them particularly suitable to be integrated into people’s daily lives. Thus, we propose that wearables can be particularly useful to help people make sense of different kinds of information and situations in the course of their everyday activities, in other words, to help support learning in everyday life. Further, different forms of wearables have different affordances leading to varying perceptions and preferences, depending on the purpose and context of use. While there is research on wearable use in the learning context, it is mostly limited to specific settings and usually only explores wearable use for a specific task. This paper presents an online survey with 70 participants conducted to understand users’ preferences and perceptions of how wearables may be used to support learning in their everyday life. Multiple ways of use of wearable for learning were proposed. Asking for information was the most common learning-oriented use. The smartwatch/wristband, followed by the smart glasses, was the most preferred wearable form factor to support learning. Our survey results also showed that the choice of wearable type to use for learning is associated with prior wearable experience and that perceived social influence of wearables decreases significantly with gain in the experience with a fitness tracker. Overall, our study indicates that wearable devices have untapped potential to be used for learning in daily life and different form factors are perceived to afford different functions and used for different purposes.