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A validated questionnaire evaluating the attitude of Chinese people toward wireless applications in healthcare industry was administered to around 1,000 people from Oct. 2006 to Jan. 2007. Investigated subjects include people with different occupations and in different age levels. Investigated content covers preferred service types of wireless applications in healthcare, people’s concerns towards the wireless services, etc. Investigated methods include interviewing and dispatching questionnaires. The objective of the survey is to assess people’s acceptability and requirement toward wireless applications in healthcare industry, called Wireless e-Health or “WEHealth” for short. Result reveals that people’s attitude toward WEHealth in China is positive basically; An overall analysis of questionnaires reveals some interesting results and some problems we should be pay more attention to in the future industrialization process of WEHealth systems and services.
This paper is supported by Beijing Nature Science Foundation (No. 4062023) and The 111 Project (No. B07005) of Ministry of Education (MOE) of China.
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Kang, G., Ouyang, Y., Liu, D., Wang, H., Zhang, P. (2007). Attitude Toward Wireless Applications in Healthcare Industry in China. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_96
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