Abstract
The market for smart home technology (SHT) has increased rapidly and is said to do so during the next years. In particular, comfort and security features are the main focus of vendors. This paper aims to examine the different influencing factors that have an impact on the adoption decision of consumers. For this, a survey was conducted among 327 German consumers. Results show that perceived security and comfort are significant influencing factors. In particular, control functions play an important role. In contrast, neither usability of SHT nor costs show a noteworthy impact on the adoption decision, although costs are expected to be high.
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Gross, C., Siepermann, M., Lackes, R. (2020). The Acceptance of Smart Home Technology. In: Buchmann, R.A., Polini, A., Johansson, B., Karagiannis, D. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 398. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61140-8_1
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