International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 12 , Pages 788-801 , December 2009

Elderly persons’ perception and acceptance of using wireless sensor networks to assist healthcare

  • Robert Steele

      Affiliations

    • Discipline of Health Informatics, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Amanda Lo

      Affiliations

    • Discipline of Health Informatics, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, NSW 1825, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 9036 7476; fax: +61 2 9351 9672.
    • ,
  • Chris Secombe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Yuk Kuen Wong

      Affiliations

    • School of Management, Griffith University, Australia

Received 3 March 2009 ,Revised 26 July 2009 ,Accepted 2 August 2009.

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PII: S1386-5056(09)00117-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.08.001

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 12 , Pages 788-801 , December 2009

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