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Review of Domestic and Foreign Research on the Elderly’s Use of Mobile Phones

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Recent Developments in Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices

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Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of information technology, especially the high prevalence of mobile phones, which have penetrated into groups of various ages, especially the elderly who has never used mobile phones and the Internet before. Based on eight database platforms at home and abroad, this paper analyzes the affecting factors of the elderly’s use of mobile phones by literature retrieval. We identify that the influencing factors for the elderly’s use of mobile phones are mainly: characteristics of the elderly, individual motivation, social population, and technical convenience. Based on the above research, this paper also puts forward the basic framework that affects the elderly’s use of mobile phones in China, making people pay more attention to and understand the Chinese elderly’s use of mobile phones, providing theoretical and practical guidance for enterprises’ management of the elderly and corresponding product design and service.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant, 71402159, 71162005, 71362016, Yunnan Science and Technology Fund (2014FB116, 2017FA034), Educational and Teaching Reform Fund of Yunnan University, Yunnan Province Young Academic and Technical Leader Candidate Program (2018HB), Yunnan Provincial E-Business Entrepreneur Innovation Interactive Space (2017DS012), and Yunnan Provincial E-Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Key Laboratory of Colleges and Universities (YES 2014 [12]).

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  1. College of Business and Tourism Management, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

    Yumei Luo & Lina Guo

  2. Business School, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, China

    Qiongwei Ye

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    Srikanta Patnaik

  2. Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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Luo, Y., Guo, L., Ye, Q. (2019). Review of Domestic and Foreign Research on the Elderly’s Use of Mobile Phones. In: Patnaik, S., Jain, V. (eds) Recent Developments in Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 752. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8944-2_9

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