A small but significant difference - The role of gender on acceptance of medical assistive technologies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6389 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 82-100

  Wilkowska, Wiktoria ^a   Gaul, Sylvia ^a   Ziefle, Martina ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

control; Gender; medical technology; perceived usefulness; privacy; smart home technology; smart textiles; TAM; trust

Indexed keywords

GENDER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PRIVACY; SMART HOME TECHNOLOGY; SMART TEXTILES; TAM; TRUST;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FABRICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78649935702     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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