What makes older people want to use mobile devices?
The use of mobile devices have huge potential to assist mobile users to perform everyday tasks. However, there is small percentage of older people are using mobile devices. This shown that, there is several factors that influenced the small group of older people to adopt the technology. In addition,...
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iium-577752017-07-31T08:50:24Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57775/ What makes older people want to use mobile devices? Abd Malik, Sofianiza Azuddin, Muna Abdullah, Lili Marziana T Technology (General) The use of mobile devices have huge potential to assist mobile users to perform everyday tasks. However, there is small percentage of older people are using mobile devices. This shown that, there is several factors that influenced the small group of older people to adopt the technology. In addition, there have been limited studies which investigate factors that influenced older people to adopt mobile devices. This study aims to understand the cause in which have encourage older people to adopt such technology. Qualitative methods including interview and focus groups were conducted among twenty one older people aged 55 and above. The results indicated that, there were five factors that influence older people to use mobile devices. The factors were mobile device design, functions, social inspiration, economical and others. Springer Link 2017-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57775/1/What%20makes%20older%20people%20want%20to%20use%20mobile%20devices.pdf Abd Malik, Sofianiza and Azuddin, Muna and Abdullah, Lili Marziana (2017) What makes older people want to use mobile devices? Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies: Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology, 5. pp. 100-107. ISSN 2367-4512 E-ISSN 2367-4520 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59427-9_11 10.1007/978-3-319-59427-9_11 |
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The use of mobile devices have huge potential to assist mobile users to perform everyday tasks. However, there is small percentage of older people are using mobile devices. This shown that, there is several factors that influenced the small group of older people to adopt the technology. In addition, there have been limited studies which investigate factors that influenced older people
to adopt mobile devices. This study aims to understand the cause in which have encourage older people to adopt such technology. Qualitative methods including interview and focus groups were conducted among twenty one older people aged 55 and above. The results indicated that, there were five factors that influence older people to use mobile devices. The factors were mobile device
design, functions, social inspiration, economical and others. |
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