Paper Info
Title
Ambient assisted living: towards a model of technology adoption and use among elderly users
Abstract
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies offer a promising perspective on autonomous aging in place. This is in the interest of the older adults themselves, overburdened caregivers and policy makers who try to control health care budgets in the face of the ever growing older population. However, these technologies are still in their infancy and little is known whether the older adults are ready to adopt and use them. So far, most research efforts are of exploratory nature. While they identify factors which are important for the adoption and use of AAL technologies, only a few attempt to test and quantify the underlying relations between these factors. Furthermore, many studies focus on a pre-adoption stage (a technology has not been used yet) and do not consider post-adoption (users have used and experienced a technology). This dissertation seeks to fill this gap by constructing a model which tests the underlying relations between the various influencing factors across both pre-adoption and post-adoption stages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2638728.2638838
UbiComp Adjunct
Keywords
Field
DocType
health,ambient assisted living,human factors,technology adoption,assistive technologies for persons with disabilities,aging in place,older adults
Health care,Population,Internet privacy,Computer science,Simulation,Aging in place,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.61
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christina Jaschinski182.39