A Look at Wearable Abandonment
Hyunho Lee, Youngseok Lee · 2017
While wearable devices have been the buzzword in these days, they are still in the infant market stage. Though demand for wearable devices has skyrocketed, the early abandonment of devices become an important issue. Many studies examine the usage of wearable devices with user survey. However,it is essential to look at the real behavior of wearable users how and why wearable users enjoy or abandon devices. In this work,we present experimental results on 80 college students, 64 dayswith fitness trackers. From the experiments, we have found that50% of users have stopped using fitness trackers within two weeks at first experiment and that 34% of users abandoned the devices in nine weeks at second experiment.