Potential Use of Smart Kitchen Management Application (SKM)

This research aimed to measure potential use of an application for smart kitchen management (SKM), designed to facilitate the users in managing the kitchen materials or items at a low cost and reduce the number of purchased kitchen items/ingredients derived from ignorant and unorganised behaviour. SKM could be an alternative aspect of kitchen management in which people could monitor how many items/ingredients left in the refrigerator or kitchen. The application also calculated and indicated the reorder point when the items/ingredients were about to run out or to be purchased. Psychological factors related to the potential use of SKM were also hypothesised and investigated. Both offline and online questionnaires were used to gather data from a sample of 180 participants. A seven-point Likert scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree) was used to measure all question items together with appropriate research instruments and statistical methods for data analysis, including technology acceptance model (TAM) and structural equation modelling (SEM). The results showed that there were strong indications of the potential adoption of SKM and significant relationships among the hypothesised constructs.