Modelling user behavior towards smartphones and wearable technologies: A bibliometric study and brief literature review

TL;DR

This paper provides a bibliometric and content analysis of research on technology adoption models related to smartphones and wearables, highlighting current trends, influential studies, and future research directions.

Contribution

It combines bibliometric methods with content review to map the landscape of smartphone adoption models and identify research gaps and emerging trends.

Findings

Identification of key adoption models used in smartphone research

Analysis of influential papers and research clusters

Highlighting gaps and future directions in technology adoption studies

Abstract

The study uses bibliometric as well as content analysis to determine the current situation regarding the application of technology adoption models (i.e., the Technology Acceptance Model, Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, and Innovation Diffusion Theory) to the smartphone market that also includes smart wearables. Hereby the author would like to determine the connection between smartphone usage and adoption models and enrich literature by defining state-of-the-art tendencies and approaches. To achieve the goal, the author applied a two-stage approach: in the first stage, 213 articles were analyzed using Citation and Bibliographic coupling tools in VOSviewer (1.6.20). The papers were selected from the Scopus database and the search of the papers was conducted in the fields of Economics, Business, and Computer technologies. In the second stage, the author conducted a brief literature review of the most influential papers. The results illustrate the situation regarding the implementation of different models in the case of smartphone adoption. Content analyses of the most influential papers were applied to explain and enrich the results of bibliometric analyses as well as determine research gaps and future research development.