TY - JOUR
T1 - Research investigations on the use or non-use of hearing aids in the smart cities
AU - Chang, Victor
AU - Wang, Yuanyuan
AU - Wills, Gary
N1 - Funding Information:
In this paper, we define the relationship between IoT, smart cities and hearing aids and present how they can be better developed. The conceptual three-layered framework has been explained, whereby hearing aids can take the benefits of smart cities. While there are demands for the rise of hearing aids to facilitate the growing older population and the improvement in QoL in smart cities, our research questions have been focused on factors influencing adoption of hearing aids and identifying what can be done better if adoption does not take place. We have examined several models and have proposed our own new and hybrid model that take all the critical factors for adoption of hearing aids. After collecting 103 valid data, our analysis shows that our results support our hypotheses with explanations elaborated and justified. Our research contributions are to confirm the factors that determine adoption of hearing aids and the correlation between improvement of QoL and the use of hearing aids. The improvement of QoL has been seen in older generation adopting hearing-aids, since they can better interact with the people and services around them in smart cities. Their appointments, treatments and visits to hospitals can be more easily accessible than before using hearing aids. Additionally, they can make new friends with similar situations. Older generation can feel they can make their “services” and availability more valuable to the smart cities they live in different parts of China. Prof. Victor Chang is an Associate Professor (Reader), Director of PhD and Director of MRes at IBSS, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, after working as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK, for 3.5 years. Within 4 years, he completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012 and 2015, the 2016 European award: Best Project in Research, Outstanding Young Scientist award in 2017 and numerous awards since 2012. He is widely regarded as a leading expert on Big Data/Cloud/IoT/security. He is a visiting scholar/PhD examiner at several universities, an Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, Editor of FGCS, Associate Editor of TII, founding chair of two international workshops and founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS http://www.iotbd.org and COMPLEXIS http://www.complexis.org since Year 2016. He was involved in different projects worth more than £12.5 million in Europe and Asia. He has published 3 books as sole authors and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He has given 16 keynotes at international conferences. Ms. Yuanyuan Wang is a master student at IBSS, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. She has worked with Prof Victor Chang for this part of research. She graduated with MRes in Management. Prior joining IBSS, she has a master degree in Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics. She likes health care and statistical research. Prof. Gary Wills is an Associate Professor, Electronics and Computer Science Department, University of Southampton. He is an expert in many areas, including security, cloud computing and information systems research involved with statistical analysis. He has more than 50 PhD completion up-to-date. He is a program chair of IoTBDS conference since Year 2016. He has received numerous funding and awards. He is a Principal Teaching Fellow from Higher Education Academy of UK.
Funding Information:
We kindly appreciate funding provided by VC Research (Funding number: VCR 0000003) to support this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - This study aims to explore factors influencing behavioral intention to adopt hearing aids among old adults in smart cities. It argues that trust is a moderator to influence the relationship between attitude, subjective norm and individual's behavioral intention in smart cities. This study tests hypotheses using a sample of 103 respondents from six smart cities in China. The results reveal that attitude is main factor influencing individual's behavioral intention. Subjective norm and trust are both not statistically significant at the 95% confidence interval in the model of multiple-regression. Interestingly, it finds that trust moderates the relationship between subjective norm and individual's behavioral intention. It means that the audiologists' advice can positively affect person's behavioral intention in smart cities. The findings imply that the Theory of Reasoned Action can be partially used to explain the person's behavioral intention in Chinese context. This study contributes to encourage old people to use smart hospitals to consult audiologists about hearing loss and hearing aids rehabilitation. Hence, hearing aids can improve their quality of life (QoL), which can be reflected by the improved standard of living, better access to treatments and also the positive sentiment about their life, including comfort, friendship, happiness and a closer connection to the society.
AB - This study aims to explore factors influencing behavioral intention to adopt hearing aids among old adults in smart cities. It argues that trust is a moderator to influence the relationship between attitude, subjective norm and individual's behavioral intention in smart cities. This study tests hypotheses using a sample of 103 respondents from six smart cities in China. The results reveal that attitude is main factor influencing individual's behavioral intention. Subjective norm and trust are both not statistically significant at the 95% confidence interval in the model of multiple-regression. Interestingly, it finds that trust moderates the relationship between subjective norm and individual's behavioral intention. It means that the audiologists' advice can positively affect person's behavioral intention in smart cities. The findings imply that the Theory of Reasoned Action can be partially used to explain the person's behavioral intention in Chinese context. This study contributes to encourage old people to use smart hospitals to consult audiologists about hearing loss and hearing aids rehabilitation. Hence, hearing aids can improve their quality of life (QoL), which can be reflected by the improved standard of living, better access to treatments and also the positive sentiment about their life, including comfort, friendship, happiness and a closer connection to the society.
KW - Hearing aids
KW - Hearing aids in smart cities
KW - Measurement of older generation's quality of life in smart cities
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.03.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044008662
SN - 0040-1625
VL - 153
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
M1 - 119231
ER -
