Towards Household Blood Glucose Meter in a Sample of Older People

Abstract

This paper constructed a new model by integrating the product design factors into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which aimed to investigate the relationship between the design elements of the household blood glucose meter and the use intention of the elderly users. 184 valid samples were collected and the software of SPSS 23.0 and SPSSAU online were used to test the model and hypotheses. The results are shown as below: (1) Older people's perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU) toward household blood glucose meter has a significantly positive effect on their use intention (UT); Older people's perceived ease of use (PEOU) toward household blood glucose meter has a significantly positive effect on their perceived usefulness(PU); (2) The functional design(FD) factors of household blood glucose meter has a significant positive effect both on older people's perceived usefulness(PU) and on their perceived ease of use (PEOU), and it also has a positive effect on older people’s use intention (UT) directly; The appearance design (AD) factors of household blood glucose meter has a significant positive effect both on older people's perceived ease of use (PEOU) and on their perceived usefulness (PU); And the interaction design (ID) factors of household blood glucose meter has a weakly negative effect on older people's perceived ease of use (PEOU) and has a weakly positive effect on their perceived usefulness (PU); (3) The past-experience (UX) of older people has no moderating effect between use perception and use intention (UT) of household blood glucose meter. Finally, some reasonable suggestions are given from product design based on the quantitative analysis to make the design of the home blood glucose meter more consistent with the cognition of the elderly users, so as to improve the interest of blood sugar self monitoring in elderly diabetes group, shape their healthy living and lifestyle.