Different perspectives on technology acceptance: The role of technology type and age

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

Volumn 5889 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 20-41

  Arning, Katrin ^a   Ziefle, Martina ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Age; Ehealth; Gender; ICT; Technology; Usability; User diversity

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE; AGE; EHEALTH; GENDER; ICT; USABILITY; USER DIVERSITY;

GLUCOSE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); USABILITY ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78650644371     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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