Willingness to Expose (WTE) : Understanding of the relationship between WTE and monitoring serivces for health

Abstract

In recent years, the development of sensing systems for disease prevention and health management has been expected in the field of health care. Sensing systems can gather biological information such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration, as well as daily activities, and analyze the state of physical and mental health to evaluate one’s health status. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of consumers, they need to make a comprehensive decision of what they want to know, the type of data to be used for health evaluation, and the risks associated with data collection. In this study, based on the concept of “Willingness to Expose (WTE),” proposed by the authors, we investigated the relationship between WTE and the type of service for health monotoring. The results showed that WTE was higher for those who were concerned about their fall risks, indicating that one's WTE would be increased when percerived reasonable benefits from sensor techonologies.