Conceptualising Healthcare-Seeking as an Activity to Explain Technology Use: A Case of M-health
| Autor: | Sowon, Karen, Chigona, Wallace |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The purpose of this paper is to engage with the Information Systems' contexts of use as a means to explain nuanced human-technology interaction. In this paper, we specifically propose the conceptualisation of healthcare-seeking as an activity to offer a richer explanation of technology utilisation. This is an interpretivist study drawing on Activity Theory to conceptualise healthcare-seeking as the minimum context needed to explicate use. A framework of the core aspects of AT is used to analyse one empirical mHealth case from a Kenyan context thus illustrating how AT can be applied to study technology use. The paper explicates technology use by explaining various utilisation behaviour that may emerge in a complex human-technology interaction context; ranging from a complex adoption process to mechanisms to determine continuance that differentiate trust in the intervention from trust in the information, and potential technology coping strategies. The paper is a novel attempt to operationalise AT to study technology use. It thus offers a broader explication of use while providing insights for design and implementation made possible by the conceptualisation of healthcare-seeking as an activity. Such insights may be useful in the design of patient-centred systems. Comment: In proceedings of the 1st Virtual Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, 2021 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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