Lend me your arms: The use and implications of humancentric RFID

  • Authors:
  • Amelia Masters;Katina Michael

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Recent developments in the area of RFID have seen the technology expand from its role in industrial and animal tagging applications, to being implantable in humans. With a gap in literature identified between current technological development and future humancentric possibility, little has been previously known about the nature of contemporary humancentric applications. By employing usability context analyses in control, convenience and care-related application areas, we begin to piece together a cohesive view of the current development state of humancentric RFID, as detached from predictive conjecture. This is supplemented by an understanding of the market-based, social and ethical concerns which plague the technology.