Title: Baby crying acceptance in Portugal

Authors: Tiago Martins, Sergio Tenreiro De Magalhaes

Addresses: Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Braga, Portugal. ' Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Braga, Portugal

Abstract: The baby|s crying is his most important mean of communication. The crying monitoring performed by devices that have been developed does not ensure the complete safety of the child. It is necessary to join to these technological resources means of communicating the results to the responsible, which would involve the digital processing of information available from crying. The survey carried out enabled to understand the level of adoption, in the continental territory of Portugal, of a technology that will be able to do such digital processing. Technology acceptance model was used as the theoretical referential. The statistical analysis showed that there is a good probability of acceptance of such system.

Keywords: baby crying; child safety; technology acceptance model; TAM; Portugal; crying monitoring; digital processing; communication; babies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2010.038289

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2010 Vol.3 No.3, pp.278 - 287

Published online: 27 Jan 2011 *

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