'But obviously not for me': Robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 335-347

  Neven, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Imagined user; Robotics; Testing; User representations

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONSUMER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROBOTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77950157782     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01218.x     Document Type: Article

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