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Acceptability Engineering: the Study of user Acceptance of Innovative Technologies

“…They are usually rapid to appear, have diverse applications, and are often limited to experts and professionals in a particular field, with some remaining as theoretical concepts. For instance, wearable computing with biosensors for healthcare is not matured enough (Kim et al, 2011;Rajan & Sukanesh, 2013), but still has its huge potentiality in the future. In general, nanotechnology, quantum computers, and nuclear fusion power are a few examples of this kind of innovative technology.…”

“…While many technology-oriented HCI researchers have shown an interest in innovative technologies, human-oriented HCI researchers have overlooked them to a large extent. For example, wearable healthcare systems and devices have rarely been explored in terms of user perspectives (Kim et al, 2011). Here we argue that a scientific approach to the design of innovative computing technologies would be desirable to assess the design of future innovative technologies in a systematic manner from the perspective of user acceptance, and discuss the potential of a new discipline of Acceptability Engineering (AE), where concepts, theories, and methods can be generated, shared, and validated among researchers.…”