Attitude of senior citizens towards smart home technologies:a literature review
Hamal Mishra, Binisha (2015)
Yrkeshögskolan Arcada
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015122121556
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015122121556
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Smart home can be of significant importance for positive ageing allowing elderly to maintain independence, functionality, well-being and higher quality of life.
Aim: The aim of this thesis is to study attitude of senior citizens towards smart home technologies. Understanding senior citizen's attitude towards current smart home technol-ogies is an important aspect in optimization of the existing technologies as well as in the design of new technologies. The review will aim to find the answers for following re-search questions:
1. What is attitude of elderly towards various smart home devices?
2. How can we improve the usage of smart home devices among elderly?
Method: This study involves literature review of ten different studies conducted to study attitude and perceptions towards smart home technologies. Articles were collected from reliable data search engines like EBSCO, PUBMED and CINAHL. The theoretical framework used was based on Technology acceptance model.
Results: The study suggested positive response towards smart home devices and that smart home technology were willingly accepted by elderly. However, concerns were raised with respect to privacy violation, lack of human responders and user-friendliness. Smart home technologies were significantly useful in providing emergency help, preven-tion and detection of fall and monitoring physical activities of elderly to access their health status. The key issues challenging adoption of smart home technologies were pri-vacy, trust, stigma, usability, training suitable for elderly people and affordability.
Aim: The aim of this thesis is to study attitude of senior citizens towards smart home technologies. Understanding senior citizen's attitude towards current smart home technol-ogies is an important aspect in optimization of the existing technologies as well as in the design of new technologies. The review will aim to find the answers for following re-search questions:
1. What is attitude of elderly towards various smart home devices?
2. How can we improve the usage of smart home devices among elderly?
Method: This study involves literature review of ten different studies conducted to study attitude and perceptions towards smart home technologies. Articles were collected from reliable data search engines like EBSCO, PUBMED and CINAHL. The theoretical framework used was based on Technology acceptance model.
Results: The study suggested positive response towards smart home devices and that smart home technology were willingly accepted by elderly. However, concerns were raised with respect to privacy violation, lack of human responders and user-friendliness. Smart home technologies were significantly useful in providing emergency help, preven-tion and detection of fall and monitoring physical activities of elderly to access their health status. The key issues challenging adoption of smart home technologies were pri-vacy, trust, stigma, usability, training suitable for elderly people and affordability.