Toward parent-child smart clothing: Purchase intention and design elements

Abstract

Through the analysis of consumers’ attitude (ATT) and purchase intention (PI) toward parent-child smart clothing, this research reversely derives and extracts the design elements of this type of clothing. This research expands the category of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with clothing design attribute. Based on perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PE) and perceived performance risk (PR), functionality (FUN), aesthetic (AES) and compatibility (COM) of clothing are added to analyze the factors affecting consumers’ ATT and PI toward parent-child smart clothing. A total of 372 volunteers participated in the test, and the results show that COM has a significant positive influence on PU, PE and PR. PU and FUN have a positive influence on purchase ATT and PI. PE positively affects PU and positively affects purchase ATT. PE positively affects PU and positively affects purchase ATT.AES positively influences purchase ATT but has little impact on PI. PR negatively influences both purchase ATT and PI but have little impact on PI. This research confirms the significance of multi-dimensional features of smart parent-child clothing, extracts and preliminarily establishes the framework model of design evaluation elements. And the results are helpful to the product design and development of parent-child smart clothing in the future.