Southern Cross University, School of Science and Engineering, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia.
Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia.
Inform Health Soc Care. 2023 Jan 2;48(1):80-94. doi: 10.1080/17538157.2022.2069028. Epub 2022 Apr 26.
Smart Home Technology presents an exciting opportunity to support seniors living independently in their homes. Despite widespread interest in Smart Homes, seniors' readiness to adopt Smart Home Technology is low. To determine the factors underpinning Australian seniors' acceptance and adoption of Smart Home Technology using an extended UTAUT model that includes Trust, Resistance to Change and Technology Anxiety. A longitudinal study was conducted to validate the proposed model prior to and after the implementation of a pilot Smart Home Modification program for seniors. Structural Equation Modeling has been applied to test the proposed hypotheses using a sample of 60 seniors in regional Australia. Perceived Usefulness is an important predictor of Smart Home Technology adoption by seniors. Trust was found to indirectly predict adoption of Smart Home Technology via Perceived Usefulness. This study showed that Perceived Usefulness and Trust are critical factors for the acceptance and use of SHT by seniors, validating the extension of UTAUT with a Trust factor. This makes a unique theoretical contribution to the literature with implications for aged care providers and policymakers to consider seniors' perceived usefulness and trust in the design, development, and implementation of Smart Home solutions.
智能家居技术为支持老年人在家中独立生活提供了令人兴奋的机会。尽管人们对智能家居普遍感兴趣，但老年人采用智能家居技术的准备程度较低。为了使用包含信任、变革抵制和技术焦虑的扩展 UTAUT 模型来确定澳大利亚老年人接受和采用智能家居技术的基础因素，进行了一项纵向研究，以在实施老年人智能家居改造试点计划之前和之后验证拟议模型。使用澳大利亚地区的 60 名老年人样本，应用结构方程模型来测试拟议的假设。感知有用性是老年人采用智能家居技术的重要预测指标。研究发现，信任通过感知有用性间接预测智能家居技术的采用。本研究表明，感知有用性和信任是老年人接受和使用 SHT 的关键因素，通过信任因素扩展了 UTAUT，这为文献做出了独特的理论贡献，为养老服务提供者和政策制定者在智能家居解决方案的设计、开发和实施中考虑老年人的感知有用性和信任提供了启示。
