Acceptance of Virtual Health Avatars
Heimo Müller, Martina Lang, Bernhard Wieser, Robert Reihs, Birgit Pohn, Andreas Holzinger, Kurt Zatloukal · 2019
We investigated the acceptance of virtual health avatars in geriatrics and gerontology, prevention and rehabilitation. We produced simulation videos for several scenarios and evaluated the acceptance with focus groups. The following research objectives were addressed: 1) the assessment of the acceptance of virtual health avatars 2) naming of the reasons for approval and rejection of the application of digital health technologies using the example of health avatars.The results obtained on the basis of the focus group discussions reveal a number of positive perspectives. The research results allow the identification of concerns towards the implementation of virtual health avatars and give hints how to improve interfaces for future data driven medicine.