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01-12-2013 | Original Paper

Designing an Intelligent Health Monitoring System and Exploring User Acceptance for the Elderly

Authors: Kevin C. Tseng, Chien-Lung Hsu, Yu-Hao Chuang

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 6/2013

Abstract

Recently, many healthcare or health monitoring systems are proposed to improve life quality of the elderly in the aging process. The elderly are generally with poor health and low information literacy. Low information literacy might be an obstacle of using such systems. This research considered the characteristics and the needs of the elderly and developed an intelligent health monitoring system for the elderly with low information literacy living in the nursing home. The system is intelligent since it can monitor the health status of the elderly based on clinical and medical knowledge, provide an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use user interface for the elderly, and automatically send important or emergency feedback to caregivers. Finally, we explored the user acceptance for the elderly using our proposed system based on the unified theory of acceptance and user of technology model. The experimental results indicate the developed system is highly accepted by the elderly in terms of performance expectation, endeavor expectation, social influence, and facilitating condition.

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Title: Designing an Intelligent Health Monitoring System and Exploring User Acceptance for the Elderly
Authors: Kevin C. Tseng
Chien-Lung Hsu
Yu-Hao Chuang
Publication date: 01-12-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-013-9967-y

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