Wearing Trust: How Older Adults Calibrate Reliance on Health Wearables Through Bodily Experience and Everyday Use
Older adults increasingly use health wearables, yet often cannot inspect the properties that matter for reliance. Through 31 semi-structured interviews in China, we examined how participants judged whether wearable outputs were reliable enough for everyday use. Participants relied on brand and price, visible interface activity, lived interaction experience, and comparison with bodily sensation. These cues supported conditional trust, but did not reveal sensor validity, data continuity, or failur
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Published: 9 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Healthcare
Retrieved: 11 August 2026
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ethics.ai (9 August 2026), “Wearing Trust: How Older Adults Calibrate Reliance on Health Wearables Through Bodily Experience and Everyday Use,” evidence record 18287, https://ethics.ai/record/18287 (originally published by arXiv cs.HC).
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