Accounting for user diversity in the acceptance of medical assistive technologies

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 69 LNICST, Issue , 2011, Pages 175-183

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

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

aging concepts; medical technology; usefulness; user diversity

Indexed keywords

AGING PROCESS; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DIVERSITY FACTORS; GENERAL ASPECTS; MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; USEFULNESS; USER DIVERSITY;

HEALTH CARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84885888970     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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