Little brother: Could and should wearable computing technologies be applied to reducing older people's fear of crime?

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 402-415

  Blythe, Mark A ^a   Wright, Peter C ^a   Monk, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fear of crime; Internet communities; Older people; Personal ubiquitous computing; Privacy; Social dependability; Surveillance technology; Wearable computing; Webcams

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

INTERNET COMMUNITIES; OLDER PEOPLE; SOCIAL DEPENDABILITY; SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY; WEARABLE COMPUTING; WEBCAMS;

CRIME;

EID: 33745631620     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0309-4     Document Type: Article

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