Paper Info
Title
From living space to urban quarter: acceptance of ICT monitoring solutions in an ageing society
Abstract
The question of designing safe, secure, and human-centered urban living environments is complex, as different and controversial needs from different sources have to be harmonized. The ongoing demographic change with more and more older and frail persons living in urban environments raise the question how modern technologies in the information and communication sector can be seamlessly integrated in specific urban spaces. Not only (medical) safety and data security issues need to be considered but also technology acceptance and the fragile trade-off between the ubiquity of technologies on the one and the perceived trust in and reliability of technologies on the other hand are of pivotal importance. To understand users' willingness to accept monitoring technologies in different locations (ranging from home to public spaces) we pursued an exploratory approach. 127 participants in a wide age range volunteered to take part in the questionnaire study. Results show that individuals independently of age and gender are quite reluctant to accept such technologies in general, even for medical reasons. It was ascertained that acceptance was impacted by the type of technology and the space (domestic vs. public) and the health status of the people.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39265-8_6
HCI (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
urban quarter,public space,specific urban space,medical reason,different location,ict monitoring solution,different source,human-centered urban living environment,urban environment,modern technology,ageing society,technology acceptance,wide age range
Data security,Internet privacy,Computer science,Willingness to accept,Demographic change,Quarter (United States coin),Information and Communications Technology,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.52
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Himmel1355.58
Martina Ziefle21176135.05
Katrin Arning325120.57