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What Makes Older People Want to Use Mobile Devices?

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Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology (IRICT 2017)

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Abstract

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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The authors will like to thank Prince Sultan University for some of the funding and all of the participants of the study.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Sofianiza Abd Malik

  2. Department of Information Systems, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Muna Azuddin & Lili Marziana Abdullah

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  1. Faculty of Computing Information Systems Department, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johar, Skudai, Malaysia

    Faisal Saeed

  2. Faculty of Computing Information Systems Department, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johar, Skudai, Malaysia

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  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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  4. Faculty of Computing, ISSI Research Lab, University of Technology Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

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Malik, S.A., Azuddin, M., Abdullah, L.M. (2018). What Makes Older People Want to Use Mobile Devices?. In: Saeed, F., Gazem, N., Patnaik, S., Saed Balaid, A., Mohammed, F. (eds) Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology. IRICT 2017. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59427-9_11

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