Given its personal and ubiquitous nature, the smartwatch can easily become infused into individuals’ daily lives, social roles, and relationships. This type of intertwinement of an information technology (IT) in the daily lives of individuals creates an IT identity. To understand this phenomenon in the personal IT context, this research draws from the IT identity and valence frameworks to examine how benefits and risks of smartwatch use affect deep use and innovative individual performance through smartwatch identity. Specifically, we examine how social interactions and belongingness (i.e., benefits) and privacy risk (i.e., risk) influence the building of the smartwatch identity, and in turn both deep use and innovative individual performance. Further, we explore the mediating influence of smartwatch identity. Using a survey, we collected data from 216 smartwatch users. The analysis provides evidence for the IT identity to deep use link and IT identity to innovative individual performance link. This work contributes to the IT identity literature by examining and showing how both positive and negative aspects of the smartwatch influence identity construction. This work also demonstrates the relationships between IT identity and performance, and deep use and performance. For practice, we offer insights for enhancing identity and performance.

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智能手表身份对深度使用和创新个人表现的中介影响

鉴于其个性化和无处不在的特性，智能手表很容易融入个人的日常生活、社会角色和人际关系。个人日常生活中信息技术 (IT) 的这种类型的交织创建了 IT 身份。为了在个人 IT 环境中理解这种现象，本研究借鉴了 IT 身份和效价框架，以研究智能手表使用的好处和风险如何通过智能手表身份影响深度使用和创新个人表现。具体来说，我们研究了社交互动和归属感（即利益）和隐私风险（即风险）如何影响智能手表身份的构建，进而影响深度使用和创新的个人表现。此外，我们探索了智能手表身份的中介影响。使用调查，我们收集了 216 位智能手表用户的数据。该分析为 IT 身份与深度使用链接和 IT 身份与创新个人绩效链接提供了证据。这项工作通过检查和展示智能手表的积极和消极方面如何影响身份构建，为 IT 身份文献做出了贡献。这项工作还展示了 IT 身份和性能以及深度使用和性能之间的关系。对于实践，我们提供了增强身份和绩效的见解。这项工作还展示了 IT 身份和性能以及深度使用和性能之间的关系。对于实践，我们提供了增强身份和绩效的见解。这项工作还展示了 IT 身份和性能以及深度使用和性能之间的关系。对于实践，我们提供了增强身份和绩效的见解。