Digital habitability scale: Connectivity and comfort with technology in dwellings of Mazatlán

Homes increasingly host study, work and remote communication, which gives habitability a digital dimension. This instrumental, cross-sectional and exploratory study carried out a preliminary review of a twelve-item digital habitability scale with two dimensions, perceived connectivity in the dwelling and comfort with technology at home, administered in the pilot survey of project FZ-HAB-0030 of the Factoriza UAS platform to residents aged 18 or older of neighborhoods with different connectivity levels in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. A preliminary cut of 7 cases, out of a target of 100, was analyzed with descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha and inter-item correlations; omega and factor analysis were not interpretable given the size of the cut. Item means ranged from 3.43 to 4.71. Connectivity showed an alpha of .726 and comfort an alpha of .678, each with one item negatively related to its dimension: making video calls from any room and technology helping one feel safe. The correlation between dimensions was high, ρ = .807, but very uncertain. The results do not estimate the properties of the scale, but they guide its revision before the final data cut.