There is no limit for human refining their creation to fulfill their desires. Even after a phenomenal technology, as known as smartphone; the greatest one of today’s invention, has not well enough to stop human’s creativity. They crave more and more ways to find instant and smart things through their hands. Wearable devices are being the sophisticated above smartphone and laptop which made upon that basic.

What is wearable devices? Based on Wearable Devices.com, this thing is refer to electronic technologies or computers that are incorporated into items of clothing and accessories which can comfortably be worn on the body. These wearable devices can perform many of the same computing tasks as mobile phones and laptop computers; however, in some cases, wearable technology can outperform these hand-held devices entirely.

JAKPAT found out about this wearable devices being a breakthrough in Indonesia. We want to know if Indonesian awareness has shown up of its matter. 1028 respondents had been filling an Awareness Wearable Devices survey last week. Respondents are being chosen randomly from Java island inhabitants of all age range in Indonesia. Let’s see the result:

Does this issue has spread?

Q1 (single answer) : Have you heard of wearable devices?	Total	Gender
		Male	Female
Option 1 : Yes	421	281	140
	40.95%	45.32%	34.31%
Option 2 : No	407	230	177
	39.59%	37.10%	43.38%
Option 3 : I don’t know	200	109	91
	19.46%	17.58%	22.30%
Total	1028	620	408
	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%

Beneficial Industries

When respondents give opinion about which industry could be beneficial if using wearable devices, automatically they slightly agree to choose those industries if they would ever use this devices. Most respondents give respect much to science/research or technology. Followed by entertainment and retail industries (although there is so much gap), then restaurant/food services and heavy industry/manufacturing. Surprisingly, healthcare/medicine has chosen by fewest respondents.

Though awareness of these devices might high, but people might haven’t experience it so respondents cannot imagine the real benefit of the devices related to specific industries.

Feeling interested?

Most respondents are indeed choose neutral (38,33%), but slightly below that (31,61%) feels moderately uninterested while 11,67% feels very uninterested. If we summed, respondents are rather being uninterested than feels interested.

If you interested in any, what would it be?

Sensor enable wrist wear. They like it (37,45%). But also along with headset/eye glasses (36,38%). Unfortunately, medical devices that transmit body data to them and/or a caregiver hasn’t interest them as much as the wrist wear of eye glasses (18,77%) . But still, tech-sensitive textiles/clothing is unable to reach more attention than all of that (7,39%). In Indonesia respondents might aware of the smartwatch and google-glass or similar stuff more compare to medical device and tech sensitive textiles.

If you interested in any, why would it be?

1. I like trying out the newest gadgets (31,91%)
2. I want to be healthier (13,81%)
3. I want to track my physical activity (13,52%)
4. It would make my life more fun (11,87%)
5. I’m interested in enhancing/augmenting my reality (9,44%)
6. It would make my life easier (8,75%)

Make it just like I want, please!

Respondents feels that wearable devices should satisfy them. They prefer those things can allowed them to live a more healthy life first. Besides that, they need a wearable devices that can kept them organized, then provided additional knowledge of their physical surroundings, and don’t forget to save their time. But replace the need to carry a mobile device sounds interesting though the fewest people thought about that.

Those who ever purchased

Respondents mostly admitted hasn’t do that. It linked with our first question that the wearable issue hasn’t spread much.

The desire to buy

Q8 (single answer) : Have you considered purchasing a wearable computing device?	Total	Gender
		Male	Female
Option 1 : Yes	707	447	260
	68.77%	72.10%	63.73%
Option 2 : No	321	173	148
	31.23%	27.90%	36.27%
Total	1028	620	408
	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%

Eventually, more respondents are admitted to consider buying it. From the table above, we can see that male respondents show more interest with this product than female respondents. Although the result almost reach same number, but the gap between uninterested male and female is fair.

For more detail you can download XLS report at the button below. AKPAT report consists of 3 parts which are 1) Respondent Profile, 2) Crosstabulation for each question and 3) Raw Data. Respondent profile shows you demographic profiles ( gendr,age range, locationby province, and monthly spending). Cross tabulation enables you to define different demographic segment preference on each answer.

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If you’re interested to do survey on retail and consumer goods field toward our respondents, we have over 23,000 mobile respondents ranged from age 17-50 years old, smartphone active users, and located in all regions of Indonesia that has installed our app and readily answering your survey.

Those 23,000 respondents has been verified, profiled, and continuously tracked to make sure you get the updated profiles of them. Our respondents has been profiled based on their demographic (age,gender,location, spending level, profession,religion), lifestyle habit (smoking/non, gamers/non, wearing glasses/non, frequent flyer/non, online shopper/non), and also brand consumption level ( brand A users, brand B users in FMCG, Retail, E-commerce,etc). 

If you want to do research toward our respondent, please signup here and directly create your survey there. Or directly contact our Bizdev - Chrisprastika at +62-878-3908-9833. To non-Indonesian client, we offer free translation from foreign languages includes English, Chinese,Hindi,etc.