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First published April 18, 2006 as JAMIA PrePrint; doi:10.1197/jamia.M2026
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2006;13(4):428-431
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Submitted on November 28, 2005
Accepted on April 6, 2006

Defining Obtrusiveness of Home Telehealth Technologies: A Conceptual Framework

Brian K. Hensel PhD, MSPH1*, George Demiris PhD1, and Karen L. Courtney RN, MSN1

Affiliation of the authors: 1 Department of Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

The literature of home telehealth technology recommends that systems be designed to minimize their obtrusiveness to end users. However, this term is neither explicitly defined nor consistently used. This paper presents a definition of the concept of obtrusiveness. Within this definition, twenty-two categories of what may be perceived as obtrusive in home telehealth technology are proposed based on a review of the literature. These categories are grouped into eight dimensions. This effort represents an initial step toward developing measures of obtrusiveness associated with home telehealth technology. A validated and reliable instrument would allow for evaluation of individual applications as well as theory-building across applications.






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