Abstract
With growing aging population and rapidly spreading chronic diseases, coupled with the development of cloud computing technology and emergence of intelligent mobile technology, personal health management has entered the era of ubiquitous cloud services. Therefore, Hsinchu City is establishing cloud health management system with a telecare device (Babybot), which is an innovation of healthcare, used as a self-monitoring health tool for the senior citizens. The study uses two characteristics of diffusion of innovations (DOI): relative advantage and observability to extend technology acceptance model (TAM) and proposes a new theoretical framework. In addition, the research model is developed by integrating relevant antecedents from the literature and is empirically tested with elderly-specific antecedent variables, including subjective norm, security. The purpose of this study is making a research model to explore the main factors affecting elderly adoption of the telecare devices (Babybot) and the relationship between each antecedent by seniors of Hsinchu city. The result shows that 1) relative advantage has positive significant impact on perceived ease of use and perceived of use 2) observability and perceived of use have positive significant impact on perceived of use 3) perceived ease of use, perceived of use and subjective norm have positive significant impact on behavioral intention 4) there’s no significant relationship between security and behavioral intention.