Acceptance of ICTs by Older Adults: A Review of Recent Studies

Ma, Qisheng; Chen, Ke; Chan, Alan H. S.; Teh, Pei‐Lee

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20892-3_24

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“…That is one narrative within the literature. Another contradictory narrative is that older adults are by and large receptive to digital technologies [16,49,52], and frequently find new uses for digital technology in post-retirement life [12,48,76,86]. Older adults can be enthusiastically engaged in using and co-creating digital technologies that meet their actual needs and requirements [11,46,68,83], suggesting that technologies should be designed to support alternative goals as defined by older adults [45].…”

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Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’

Knowles

Hanson

2018

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Older adults frequently deploy the concept of distrust when discussing digital technologies, and it is tempting to assume that distrust is largely responsible for the reduced uptake by older adults witnessed in the latest surveys of technology use. To help understand the impact of distrust on adoption behavior, we conducted focus groups with older adults exploring how, in what circumstances, and to what effect older adults articulate distrust in digital technologies. Our findings indicate that distrust is not especially relevant to older adults' practical decision making around technology (non-)use. The older adults in our study used the language of distrust to open up discussions around digital technologies to larger issues related to values. This suggests that looking to distrust as a predictor of non-use (e.g. in Technology Acceptance Model studies) may be uniquely unhelpful in the case of older adults, as it narrows the discussion of technology acceptance and trust to interactional issues, when their use of distrust pertains to much wider concerns. Likewise, technology adoption should not be viewed as indicative of trust or an endorsement of technology acceptability. Older adults using-while-distrusting offers important insights into how to design truly acceptable digital technologies.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’

Knowles

Hanson

2018

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…As introductorily outlined, research on older adults' health IT behavior is scarce [14,15,16,17,18] and is either descriptive in nature [e.g., 11,12,13] or targeted at predicting intentions to use specific health-related systems [19,20,21,22,23]. This study, thus, makes the following important contributions to research.…”

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“…However, research addressing this important issue is scarce as literature reviews at the intersection of older adults and health IT use point out [14,15,16,17,18]. Most of todays' available studies are directed towards predicting seniors' intentions to use specific health-related systems, such as telehealth and remote patient monitoring systems [19,20], mobile health services [21], or other specific patient systems [22,23].…”

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Older Adults Use of Online Health Information - Do They Even Try?

Rockmann

Gewald

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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“…It is commonly believed by many that older people, even when healthy, will in general experience considerable difficulties when using new ICT, and thus, their poor acceptance is assumed (Ma et al, 2015). However, the categorical nature of this stereotype has been questioned.…”

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Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

García-Betances¹,

Mf²,

Mta³

2019

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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Design of computer-based non-pharmacological cognitive healthcare interventions for people afflicted by chronic neurodegenerative impairments must be soundly informed by and clearly centered on users' distinctive disabilities. In this article we present a use-oriented analysis of those cognitive interventions intended for healthcare of patients with Alzheimer's dementia and related disorders that use human-computer interaction based on virtual reality technology. The analysis identifies the most important strengths and weakness, and describes and assesses the main key opportunities and challenges inherent to the use of this type of cognitive healthcare interventions. The most critical specific usability concerns that considerably affect these interventions are described in order to be directly addressed during a user-centered design process. Significant evaluation issues that still trouble these interventions' general acceptance are also included. On the basis of this analysis, appropriate actions are recommended to help minimize accessibility and usability issues. Finally, concrete design guidelines, and a framework with its road map are proposed to direct the design process. The proposed framework's more outstanding features and functionalities are described in relation to user-centered design conceptualization, implementation and assessment. The use of a consistent usercentered design methodology, such as the one proposed here to tackle the main critical obstacles, could turn out to become the key that allows to achieve a substantial improvement of VR-based cognitive healthcare interventions effectiveness. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Keywords: Computerized cognitive healthcare, Virtual reality for healthcare, Non-pharmacological cognitive healthcare, Alzheimer's dementia.

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Acceptance of ICTs by Older Adults: A Review of Recent Studies

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’

Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’

Older Adults Use of Online Health Information - Do They Even Try?

Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

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Acceptance of ICTs by Older Adults: A Review of Recent Studies

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Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’

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Older Adults Use of Online Health Information - Do They Even Try?

Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

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