TY - GEN
T1 - Older Adults’ Actual Use and Adoption Intention of Smart Health Care Technologies in Hong Kong
AU - Zhang, Jiaxin
AU - Wang, Hailiang
AU - Lee, Yu Hin Brian
AU - Pang, Marco Yiu Chung
AU - Luximon, Yan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement. The work described in this paper was supported by grants from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (School of Design Collaborative Research Funding Project No. P0035058, Postdoc Matching Fund Scheme Project No. P0036676, and Departmental Supporting Fund Project No. P0038546).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/6/16
Y1 - 2022/6/16
N2 - Smart health care technologies (SHCTs) can assist older adults to manage their health and acquire convenient medical and caring services, which can support older adults to live healthy and independent lives. Currently, there are various kinds of SHCTs, such as smart wearable devices, smart health monitors, health care applications, and nursing and assistive robots. Nevertheless, due to the decrease of physical and cognitive capabilities, older adults may encounter many difficulties and problems when applying different types of SHCTs, which could affect their willingness to adopt SHCTs. However, there is still unclear about Hong Kong older adults’ actual use and intention adoption of different types of SHCTs, as well as the possible factors relevant to adoption. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate Hong Kong older adults’ actual use and adoption intention of different kinds of SHCTs, and explore the possible factors of SHCTs adoption. We employed a structured interview to approach the actual use and adoption intention of four types of SHCTs and recruited eight Hong Kong older adults from a local community. The data analysis revealed the most popular and the least used types of SHCTs. The reasons for adopting SHCTs and possible factors of adoption intention toward each kind of SHCTs were discussed.
AB - Smart health care technologies (SHCTs) can assist older adults to manage their health and acquire convenient medical and caring services, which can support older adults to live healthy and independent lives. Currently, there are various kinds of SHCTs, such as smart wearable devices, smart health monitors, health care applications, and nursing and assistive robots. Nevertheless, due to the decrease of physical and cognitive capabilities, older adults may encounter many difficulties and problems when applying different types of SHCTs, which could affect their willingness to adopt SHCTs. However, there is still unclear about Hong Kong older adults’ actual use and intention adoption of different types of SHCTs, as well as the possible factors relevant to adoption. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate Hong Kong older adults’ actual use and adoption intention of different kinds of SHCTs, and explore the possible factors of SHCTs adoption. We employed a structured interview to approach the actual use and adoption intention of four types of SHCTs and recruited eight Hong Kong older adults from a local community. The data analysis revealed the most popular and the least used types of SHCTs. The reasons for adopting SHCTs and possible factors of adoption intention toward each kind of SHCTs were discussed.
KW - Actual use of technology
KW - Adoption intention
KW - Interview study
KW - Older adults
KW - Smart health care technology
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85133282076
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05581-2_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05581-2_45
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783031055805
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 658
EP - 669
BT - Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design, Interaction and Technology Acceptance - 8th International Conference, ITAP 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Gao, Qin
A2 - Zhou, Jia
ER -