Smart home technologies: Insights into generation-specific acceptance motives

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

Volumn 5889 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 312-332

  Gaul, Sylvia ^a   Ziefle, Martina ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Medical technology; Perceived usefulness; Smart home technology; TAM; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

AGING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SMART HOME TECHNOLOGY; TAM; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE;

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

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78650637461     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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