The Human Factor in the Design of Successful Ambient Assisted Living Technologies

Einflussfaktoren auf die Nutzungsintention von Pflegekräften zur Verwendung digitaler Technologien in der ambulanten Pflege – Fallstudie zur Einführung eines Sensortextils

“… 2014 ; Spinsante et al. 2017 ; Offermann-van Heek und Ziefle 2018 ). Die Erforschung der Technikakzeptanz zum Einsatz von AAL-Technologien bei ambulantem Pflegepersonal steckt derzeit allerdings noch in den Kinderschuhen (Zöllick et al.…”

“…Der Hauptgrund liegt, äquivalent zum Forschungsfeld der Technologien für Pflegekräfte, in einer nicht ausreichend zielgruppengerechten Berücksichtigung der spezifischen Bedarfe, Erwartungen sowie Kompetenzen von Pflegekräften (Spinsante et al. 2017 ; Fuchs-Frohnhofen et al. 2020 ).…”

Medical and Para-Medical Personnel’ Perspectives on Home Health Care Technology

“…Despite the critical role that this perspective may play in the uptake of ambient assisted living technologies, user-based researches still show a gap especially in the involvement of primary care clinicians, geriatricians and medical and para-medical personnel engaged in the care and cure of older adults. If the applied research on older adults and their formal/informal caregivers has begun in the last ten years [12][13][14], the involvement of the so called "tertiary end users" [15], is in its infancy and very few studies are reported in literature [7]. This gap poses four important interconnected challenges to overcome.…”

“…This strategy would enrich the probability to reach the market successfully as well as the possibility to match technologies with the complexity of health care and the habits of primary, secondary and tertiary users. Furthermore, it is well reported that physicians are important enablers to the adoption of new technology: if physicians recommend a technology tool, there is a significantly higher chance that patients will use in the context of a comprehensive treatment plan [15].…”

“…The matter of costs-benefits seems to cause this failure: technologies in home care setting is still expensive and no active policies help the sustainability of expenditure. The challenge in this specific case is to act for changing political, organizational and operational levels of society and creating prerequisites and conditions favorable to the technology uptake [19], since this is not to be considered as a catalyst for innovation [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”