How obtrusive is the equipment you provide?

The concept of usability is in common usage in reference to telecare and telehealth equipment, but how about obtrusiveness – i.e. how much does it intrude into people’s lives? A paper Defining Obtrusiveness in Home Telehealth Technologies: A Conceptual Framework from 2006 on the topic by Brian K Hensel, George Demiris and Karen L Courtney seems to have become recently available for free download from the The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Download PDF here if JAMA site is unavailable.