Abstract

New technologies’ advances offer innovative automations to people’s daily lives. More and more devices are continuously connected to the internet allowing people to control them remotely. The smart home is such a technological development. However, it is uncertain whether and to what extent the average consumer will accept smart home technology. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that affect the intention of Greek consumers to use smart home technology. The results of this study show that Greek consumers are beginning to have a positive attitude towards smart home technology. Important factors that contribute to their intention to use smart home technology include their perceived usefulness, compatibility, and ease of use of smart home technology. On the contrary, they do not think that they are influenced by their social environment regarding their intention to use smart home technology. Finally, they think that the major benefits of using smart home technology include the health monitoring, home security, and cost savings.

Highlights

  • Factors Influencing Intention of Recently, the internet has literally entered into our homes, offering automations that facilitate our daily lives

  • The technology acceptance model was used as a basic model for interpreting consumer behavior, and for acceptance model was used as a basic model for interpreting consumer behavior, and for this were evaluated evaluatedand andconsidered consideredtotoinfluence influence intention to thisreason reasonthe the factors factors that that were thethe intention to use use smart home technology are perceived usefulness, perceived convenience, perceived smart home technology are perceived usefulness, perceived convenience, perceived cost, cost, perceived compatibility, social influence, perceived enjoyment

  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of acceptance of smart home technology services by Greek consumers, to record the benefits and disadvantages of using smart home technology services, and to investigate what factors affect the acceptance of smart home technologies in Greece

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Introduction

Factors Influencing Intention of Recently, the internet has literally entered into our homes, offering automations that facilitate our daily lives. The smart home includes a set of devices and services which work individually and together to interact with each other and the user thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) technologies [1]. Smart home services and devices include energy information services [3], services that control interaction between devices [4], payment services [5], lighting control devices [6], interconnected smart white appliances such as smart fridges and washing machines, entertainment devices such as smart TVs, household robots used for various home chores [7], smart thermostats and assisted living systems and devices [8], smart security systems including automated devices such as smoke detectors, smart locks, and doors, and motion detectors [9]. There are ethical challenges as well as legal obstacles such as the lack of legal coverage in using smart home technology

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