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• TITLE: Perspectives for Wearable Electronics in Healthcare and Childcare

  AUTHORS: Johanna Virkki, Pasi Raumonen

  KEYWORDS: Childcare; Finland; Healthcare; Individual Privacy; Wearable Electronics

  JOURNAL NAME: E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks, Vol.2 No.3, August 19, 2013

  ABSTRACT: This paper starts with a literature survey that introduces possibilities of wearable electronics (WE) in different healthcare and childcare applications. Next, 24 personal interviews and an Internet forum survey were conducted in Finland about the use of WE in applications mentioned above. According to the results, most of the people feel positive about clothes used for wireless identification purposes in healthcare and childcare, but when more information about the person is added that can be wirelessly read, the feelings become more negative. Several important points to consider before implementation of WE for healthcare and childcare environments were brought up.