Determinants of mHealth success: An empirical investigation of the user perspective

Mobile health (mHealth) applications have become an important tool to support public health, especially in times of increased health awareness in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is still uncertainty about what factors determine successful mHealth services from the users’ perspective. Based on the results of a systematic literature review, a qualitative content analysis of available apps and semi-structured user and expert interviews, we derive a structural model with antecedents on user attitudes towards mHealth and user satisfaction with the mHealth application. These variables determine users’ intention to continue using the application and their intention to recommend it to others. For verification, we tested the model with a sample of 249 German mHealth users from the “MyFitnessPal” community using structural equation modelling and found that all derived path relations have significant coefficients.     

Factors influencing the adoption of mHealth services in a developing country: A patient-centric study

mHealth under the umbrella of eHealth has become an essential tool for providing quality, accessible and equal health care services at an affordable cost. Despite the potential benefits of mHealth, its adoption remains a big challenge in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This study aims to examine the factors affecting the adoption of mHealth services in Bangladesh by using the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model with perceived reliability and price value factors. It also examines the moderating effect of gender on the intention to use and on the actual usage behavior of users of mHealth services. A well-structured face-to-face survey was employed to collect the data. Structural equation modeling (SEM) with a partial least squares method was used to analyze the data collected from 296 generation Y participants. The results confirmed that performance expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions and perceived reliability positively influence the behavioral intention to adopt mHealth services. However, effort expectancy and price value did not have a significance influence on the behavioral intention. Moreover, Gender has a significant moderating effect on mHealth services adoption in certain cases. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of this study are also discussed.     

Identification of critical quality dimensions for continuance intention in mHealth services: Case study of onecare service

Mobile health (mHealth) services support the continuous health-related monitoring, feedback, and behavior modification of individuals and populations through the use of personal mobile communication devices. Poor service quality is a major reason why many users have discontinued using mHealth services. However, only a few studies have identified the critical quality components for continuance intention. The current study aims to identify the crucial quality dimensions for users’ continuance intention in an mHealth service called Onecare. This service provides various forms of support for the day-to-day health behavior monitoring of college students by utilizing daily behavior data. In this research, five major quality dimensions of mHealth services, namely, content quality, engagement, reliability, usability, and privacy, were derived from existing studies. The effect of each quality dimension on continuance intention was estimated by analyzing the survey responses of 191 Onecare service users. The quality dimension with the most considerable effect on continuance intention was determined to be engagement followed by content quality and reliability. By contrast, the effects of usability and privacy on continuance intention were insignificant. Furthermore, this study found that the optimal quality management strategy can change depending on the objective, i.e., to increase continuance intention or satisfaction. These results will help mHealth service managers allocate their limited resources to effectively and efficiently improve continuance intention. Future research is required to verify if the findings of this study are generalizable to any population because the sample used in this work was specific to Korean college students.     

Understanding mobile health service use: An investigation of routine and emergency use intentions

This study theorizes two information systems (IS) use behaviors associated with individuals’ behavioral intention of mobile health (mHealth) services. Emergency use refers to individuals’ use of IS in emergency situations. Routine use refers to individuals’ use of IS on a basis. We adopt motivation theory as our overarching theoretical lens through which we investigate the influence of individuals’ different motivation incentives on their emergency and routine use intentions of mHealth services. We also investigate the influences of technological and psychological antecedents on extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. Based on data collected from 241 participants, we find that perceived usefulness enhances people’s emergency and routine use intentions of mHealth services and that perceived enjoyment positively influences routine use intention. In addition, we find that perceived source credibility, perceived service availability, and perceived diagnosticity influence perceived usefulness (extrinsic motivation), whereas perceived autonomy, perceived competence, perceived relatedness, and curiosity affect perceived enjoyment (intrinsic motivation). This research offers insights for IS literature regarding mHealth emergency and routine use behaviors.     

Role of technology attraction and parasocial interaction in social shopping websites

Attraction is an essential factor in interactions between individuals. Some existing studies have examined multiple dimensions of attraction including social, physical, and task attraction. However, the mechanism behind these three attraction dimensions and parasocial interaction in social shopping websites has not been well examined. This study adopts technology attraction theory and parasocial interaction theory to analyze how three types of technology attraction affect parasocial interaction, which consequently influences users’ social commerce intention. This study conducted a survey to analyze the proposed empirical model and analyzed data from 248 social shopping website users. The results indicate that social attraction and task attraction positively and directly affect the users’ parasocial interaction. In contrast, physical attraction indirectly influences users’ parasocial interaction via social attraction and task attraction, respectively. Parasocial interaction consequently influences users’ social commerce intention. Discussion, limitations, and implications of the study are presented.     

Understanding the effects of physical experience and information integration on consumer use of online to offline commerce

Online to Offline (O2O) commerce commands intense attention from both academic and practical fields, but the unique features of O2O commerce and how these features affect consumer use of O2O commerce remain unclear. Based on an analysis of the features of O2O commerce, we build a research model integrating perceived value theory and the technology acceptance model to examine the influence of the features of O2O commerce on consumer use intention. The research model is tested with data collected from a field survey using structural equation modelling. Two crucial features of O2O commerce, namely, “physical experience” and “integration of online and offline information”, are shown to exert significant impacts on consumer use intention via the classic core constructs of perceived benefit, perceived usefulness, and perceived value. The findings validate the two features’ impact on consumer use of O2O commerce via both technological and economic attributes. The implications for merchants’ and platforms’ operation in O2O commerce are discussed.     

浅谈小学生投掷能力的培养--以“快乐的小飞机”为例

投掷能力是人类基本行为能力之一,它能极大的锻炼人的臂力、肩部柔韧度,对于一个人来说,良好的臂力和肩部柔韧度能方便人在未来进行更多的体育锻炼,如举重等,随着全民健身活动的不断开展,人们对投掷又有了新的认识。     

Understanding the Internet banking adoption: A unified theory of acceptance and use of technology and perceived risk application

Understanding the main determinants of Internet banking adoption is important for banks and users; our understanding of the role of users’ perceived risk in Internet banking adoption is limited. In response, we develop a conceptual model that combines unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with perceived risk to explain behaviour intention and usage behaviour of Internet banking. To test the conceptual model we collected data from Portugal (249 valid cases). Our results support some relationships of UTAUT, such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and social influence, and also the role of risk as a stronger predictor of intention. To explain usage behaviour of Internet banking the most important factor is behavioural intention to use Internet banking.     

白城市区广场健身舞的开展状况及趋势

本文采用文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计法对目前白城市区居民参加广场健身舞的状况进行调查与研究,得出结论,广场健身舞是一项具有较好的体育锻炼价值,不仅能够强身健体,还能够使人精神愉悦.这一大众体育活动项目,深受广大社区群众尤其是中老年人的喜爱.但是由于训练场地设施的缺乏,组织管理制度不完善,指导员人数不足,宣传力度欠缺等因素的影响,阻碍了广场健身舞的进一步开展,为此提出建议,以期能够科学地开展广场健身舞,提高居民的身体素质,丰富业余文化生活,促进全民健身运动更好地开展.     

社会资本对“微政务”公众参与意向的影响研究

基于社交平台而诞生的“微政务”,已成为电子政务2.0模式下的公共管理新方式。优化公共服务,促进公众参与,是发展“微政务”的出发点和归宿。但当前我国“微政务”面临公众参与层次低、参与不充分等困境。研究引入社会资本理论,从社会资本视角分析“微政务”公众参与问题,以社会资本为外因潜变量,“微政务”信任和公众参与意向为内因潜变量,通过问卷调查和数据分析,并结合Structural Equation Model（SEM）进行假设检验和模型拟合,以分析社会资本对“微政务”公众参与意向的影响。研究表明,社会资本的3个维度：社会网络、社会信任和社会规范均正向影响“微政务”信任,进而对公众参与意向产生正向作用,即社会资本越丰富,公众越信任“微政务”,参与意向越强烈。研究认为,政府部门应从丰富公众社会资本入手,培育“微政务”信任,促进“微政务”公众参与。     

Predicting subjective well-being among mHealth users: a readiness – value model

mHealth applications (MHA) have recently attracted great attention from various stakeholders as they are indeed important means to enhance users’ subjective well-being. While prior research has mainly focused on intention or adoption phase, little work has empirically examined the post-adoption effects of MHA with scarce attention given to the well-being outcome. Actual users are likely to conceive the values of MHA based mainly on their direct experience with it. In this paper, the dimensions of users’ technology readiness are regarded as major impetuses for perceived utilitarian and hedonic values, which in turn influence subjective well-being among MHA users. The proposed readiness-value model is analyzed using survey data collected from 731 users of MHA. The findings show that the model significantly predicts users’ subjective well-being considering that utilitarian value is more important for male users, whereas hedonic value has a more salient effect for female users. It also reveals that enablers of technology readiness (i.e., innovativeness and optimism) exert a stronger influence than that of inhibitors (i.e., discomfort and insecurity) on the perceived values of MHA. These results have essential implications for theory and practice.     

社会化媒体环境下用户使用银行在线业务意愿的影响因素研究

[目的]社会化媒体与社交网络的迅猛发展,驱动银行开始在其网站中嵌入各种社会化工具,为用户提供社会化服务。在这种环境下,影响用户使用网上银行的因素较传统互联网环境相比可能会发生变化。因此本研究聚焦于社会化媒体环境,探究该环境下影响用户使用网上银行意愿的影响因素。[方法]通过情景式问卷收集用户数据,采用相关性分析、多元回归分析、方差分析等方法进行数据分析。[结果/结论]在社会化媒体环境下,信息支持不仅可以直接正向影响用户对网上银行的使用意愿,还可以通过网站设计对用户使用意愿产生间接影响;情感支持可以通过正向影响网站设计而对用户使用网上银行的意愿产生间接影响;感知有用性、感知易用性、网站设计均可以直接正向影响用户的使用意愿,而感知风险则对用户的使用意愿具有直接的负向影响。此外,主观规范虽不能直接影响用户使用网上银行的意愿,但可以通过感知有用性对其产生间接地影响。     

Reciprocal intention in knowledge seeking: Examining social exchange theory in an online professional community

The free-rider problem in an online professional community could, over time, undermine the wealth of the community and deplete the knowledge inventory to unacceptable levels. A knowledge seeker’s intention to reciprocate is motivated by perceived social benefits. An interpretation of intention to reciprocate cannot be fully addressed without investigating how knowledge seekers define the community support received in their knowledge-seeking process. This study suggests that perceived community support is the degree to which knowledge seekers perceive a supportive climate created by linking actors. An empirical study involving 471 knowledge seekers was conducted in an online professional community that seekers used to search for and acquire programming knowledge. The results indicated that knowledge seekers take perceived social benefits and perceived community support into account when forming an intention to reciprocate. In addition, perceived community support positively moderated the effect of knowledge-seeking effort on perceived social benefits. These findings contribute to the existing literature on knowledge-seeking by using social exchange theory to integrate perceived community support and better explain the intention of knowledge seekers to reciprocate in an online professional community. Theoretical and practical implications derived from the findings are further discussed.     

Investigating consumers’ online social shopping intention: An information processing perspective

Online social media is transforming the way customers communicate and exchange product information with others. Consumers increasingly rely on the opinions and recommendations from social media members when making purchasing decisions. However, information received from social media may have different meanings and social implications for consumers. Based on the theory of informational social influence and heuristic-systematic model (HSM), we develop a model to understand the relative importance of informational social influence, normative social influence, and perceived information quality on the consumer’s social shopping intention under different levels of product involvement. The results of the structural equation modeling (SEM) using a sample of 503 consumers in the Facebook brand fan pages indicate that social influences have a greater impact on the consumer’s social shopping intention than perceived information quality. Three social interactional factors (perceived similarity, familiarity, and expertise) have a positive effect on social shopping intention via the mediation of informational, normative social influence and perceive information quality. The multiple-group analysis suggests that high product-involved consumers are motivated to exert more cognitive effort to evaluate the product information. In contrast, low product-involved consumers are more susceptible to informational social influence. We draw on these findings to offer implications for researchers and practitioners.     

The mediating effects of habit on continuance intention

How do the behavioral-cognitive-emotional constructs of attitude, satisfaction, and habit drive consumer continuance intention of incumbent mobile technologies? From a survey of 528 consumers, we ran two structural equation models: model #1 is a base model of direct effects of attitudes and satisfaction on continuance intention; model #2 adds habit as a mediator variable. We show that consumer attitudes are stronger predictors of continuance intention, without mediation effects from habit. Consumer satisfaction only weakly predicts continuance intention and is mediated by habit. While satisfaction is correlated with consumer attitude, and satisfaction is correlated with habit, consumer attitudes seem unrelated to any habits. Attitude seems to be the strongest determinant of continuance intention; second, in the absence of compelling rational data, or given beliefs that competitors are largely undifferentiated, consumers might continue using the same product. Such complex interactions between variables may not be adequately captured in a straightforward variance model, however this study extends research in habit and continuance intention and provides for future research exploring the importance of habit over satisfaction and predominance of consumer attitudes in predicting continuance intention.     

文化接近性对潜在游客目的地态度和旅游意向的影响研究——基于自我一致性理论视角

文章基于自我一致性理论视角,通过对418个有效样本的实证分析,检验了文化接近性对潜在游客目的地态度和旅游意向的影响机制。使用结构方程建模方法对3个嵌套模型的比较显示完全中介模型具有最好的拟合优度,研究发现:(1)文化接近性对潜在游客的自我一致性感知、目的地态度和旅游意向有显著的正向影响;(2)自我一致性对潜在游客的目的地态度和旅游意向有显著的正向影响;(3)文化接近性对潜在游客目的地态度和旅游意向的影响被自我一致性完全中介。结论如下:如果潜在游客感知到自身文化与目的地文化越接近,对自我形象与目的地形象的一致性感知就越高,因此,对该目的地的印象就越好、评价就越高、态度就越积极,到该目的地旅游的意愿就越强烈。     

S-O-R视角下社会化商务意愿的实证研究

为了深入揭示社会化商务用户行为的内在机理,以S-O-R模型为基础,构建理论模型,以探讨人际互动、社会支持对信任及其社会化商务意愿的影响。通过问卷方式搜集339份有效样本,并采用结构方程模型进行数据分析。结果显示,基于能力、诚实与善意的信任均显著影响社会化商务用户的购物意愿和分享意愿;感知专业性显著影响基于能力、善意和诚实的信任,而感知相似性则显著影响基于能力和善意的信任。此外,信息支持显著影响基于能力和善意的信任,而情感支持显著影响基于能力的信任。     

独立动机与主观规范对创业动机的影响机制

创业动机是个体开展创业活动的内在驱动因素,本文基于“个体-情境互动”理论,通过问卷调查广东省370个90后青年样本,采用结构方程与分层回归分析,探讨了中国集体文化情境下,独立动机与主观规范对90后青年创业动机的影响机制。研究表明,独立动机通过个人对创业的态度的完全中介效应影响创业动机;主观规范通过个人对创业的态度和感知的行为控制的部分中介效应影响创业动机;独立需求对主观规范与创业动机的关系具有负向的调节作用,对个人对创业的态度与创业动机的关系具有正向的调节作用。     

高等院校校园体育文化建设的意义与方法

当代体育,不仅是一项强身健体、陶冶身心的社会活动,更是一种进行自我修炼、凝聚人文精神的社会文化,一方面体育可以改善人的体质,提升生活质量;另一方面体育运动中的有序竞争和协作配合,能提高凝聚力,增强集体荣誉感,从而提高团队的综合实力。本文主要从高等院校的教育特点出发,谈大学校园体育文化建设的一些看法。     

四川省城市社区居民体育健身行为干预效果调查研究

通过对成都市若干社区居民的体育健身锻炼行为的调查,采用行为转变理论对该居民样本实施不同的干预措施,干预后居民对体育健身锻炼重要性的认识、保持锻炼的信念和参与体育健身锻炼的人数均较前有不同程度提高,并据此提出了相应的建议。