TITLE:
Privacy of Wearable Electronics in the Healthcare and Childcare Sectors: A Survey of Personal Perspectives from Finland and the United Kingdom
AUTHORS:
Johanna Virkki, Rebecca Aggarwal
KEYWORDS:
Childcare; Healthcare; Privacy; Wearable Electronics
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Information Security,
Vol.5 No.2,
March
17,
2014
ABSTRACT:
The innovative development of Wearable Electronics
(WE) is creating exciting
opportunities for application across many industries. Two sectors with high
potential are healthcare and childcare. However, it is in these two sectors
where the challenges of privacy are presumed to be of the highest. In order to
ascertain the personal views of people about potential privacy problems in WE
application in these two sectors, interviews with questionnaires were conducted
in two different countries: Finland and the United
Kingdom (UK). The results indicated that the majority of people in both
countries are positive about the use of WE in healthcare and childcare
environments. However, when more information is added to be read wirelessly,
the attitudes become more negative. In general, the application of WE is more
favorable in the UK and the reason as to the difference will make for
interesting further research. Several interesting viewpoints and concerns were
presented in the interviews. It can be concluded that the implementation of WE
in these two sectors will require the collaboration of work on several areas
and the development of versatile user studies.