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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title People and a virtual doctor’s visit: learning about multiple facets of acceptance in a telemedical scenario
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Sarah Mennicken
  • Oliver Sack
  • Martina Ziefle
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed No
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 978-1-936968-15-2
Page Range 577 - 584
Event Title Workshop User-Centered-Design of Pervasive Health Applications (UCD-PH’11)
Event Type workshop
Event Location Dublin, Ireland
Event Start Date May 23 - 2011
Event End Date May 26 - 2011
Place of Publication IEEE Xplore
Publisher IEEE
Abstract Text In this paper we report on a study exploring multiple aspects of a virtual doctor’s visit as a commonly used example for telemedical services. We compare the conventional doctor’s visit with the virtual visit to identify user requirements and needs for the acceptance of such a scenario. In our survey we retrieved data from a total of 93 users between 16 and 67 years. The results of this study describe differences (and similarities) of criteria for choosing a doctor, basic requirements to accept a virtual doctor’s visit, and people’s opinions on common pro and contra arguments on this scenario. We analyzed the data for potential influences from various user characteristics, such as age, gender, social behavior, or technical competence. Interestingly, most of the reported concerns are not influenced by gender or age, while participants’ technical self-confidence is related with various acceptance aspects.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246047
Other Identification Number merlin-id:3708
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Additional Information Workshop held in conjunction with the 5th ICST/IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2011