Theoretical model for continuance use of mobile phone wellness application

Abstract

Mobile wellness application is widely used for assisting self-monitoring practice to monitor user's daily food intake and physical activities. Although these mostly free downloadable mobile application is easy to use and covers many aspects of wellness routines, there is no proof of prolonged use. Previous research reported that user will stop using the application and turned back into their old attitude of food consumptions. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence the continuance intention to adopt a mobile phone wellness application. Review of Information System Continuance Model in the areas such as mobile health, mobile phone wellness application, social network and web 2.0, were done to examine the existing factors. From the critical review, two external factors namely Social Norm and Perceive Interactivity is believed to have the ability to explain the social perspective behavior and also the effect of perceiving interactivity towards prolong usage of wellness mobile application. These findings contribute to the development of the Mobile Phones Wellness Application Continuance Use theoretical model.