Technology Adoption by Elderly People – An Empirical Analysis of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Social Networking Sites

Maier, Christian; Laumer, Sven; Eckhardt, Andreas

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2781-1_5

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“…The social factors like attitudes toward ICTs, incentives, interest toward adopting innovations, and ICT mentors (recommendations of ICTs) were found to encourage the adoption and usage of ICTs (e.g., Maier et al, 2011;Moghaddam & Khatoon-Abadi, 2013;Xu & He, 2014) . This study is consistent with the previous research, however encouraging people to use ICTs through promotions and advertising of enterprises and public administration was stressed as an important incentive.…”

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“…Technology adoption by elderly people in Germany was examined by Maier et al (2011). According to their study, adopters of social networking are mainly driven by utilitarian outcomes (degree of effectiveness and utility of using PC within households), normative beliefs (friends, family, acquaintances recommendations), perceived ease of use, and fear of technology.…”

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“…Moreover, studies on the adoption and usage of ICTs within households should take into account the new trend of the information society, namely sustainable development and its main dimensions, i.e., economic, political, socio-cultural, and ecological (Ziemba, 2015b). Organizational factors, namely, hedonic outcomes (fun, entertainment, enjoyment); some benefits and communication improvement; utilitarian outcomes (degree of effectiveness and utility of using PC within households); users' expectations Choudrie, Vyas, Voros, & Tsitsianis, 2013;King & Boyatt, 2014;Maier, Laumer, & Eckhardt, 2011;Niehaves, & Plattfaut, 2011; Research Methodology…”

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“…However, most studies are grounded in the context of welldeveloped economies, e.g., United Kingdom (Choudrie, Vyas, Voros, & Tsitsianis, 2013; and Germany (Maier, Laumer, & Eckhardt, 2011;Niehaves & Plattfaut, 2011). Researchers also examined factors affecting the adoption and usage of ICTs in households of non-European developing countries, e.g., in Jordan (Abu-Shamaa & Abu-Shanab, 2015;Dwivedi, AlAlwan, Rana, & Williams, 2015), Thailand (Kilenthong & Odton, 2014), and China (Yang, Chen, & Wei, 2015).…”

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Factors Affecting the Adoption and Usage of ICTs within Polish Households

Ziemba

2016

IJIKM

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) encompassing computer and network hardware and software, and so on, as well as various services and applications associated with them, are assuming a growing presence within the modern homestead and have an indelible impact on the professional and everyday life of people. This research aims to explore factors influencing the successful adoption and usage of ICTs within Polish households. Based on prior literature and practical experiences, a framework of success factors is provided. The required data was collected from a survey questionnaire administered to a sample of Polish households to examine this framework and identifies which factors are of greatest importance for the adoption and usage of ICTs within households in Poland. Based on 751 questionnaires the paper indicates that the adoption of ICTs within households is mainly influenced by the economic status of households and cost of ICTs, perceived economic benefits from the usage of ICTs, technological availability and security of ICTs, ICT competences and awareness, as well as satisfaction with the adoption of ICTs. Furthermore, gender, education, and place of residence do not reflect significant differences on the factors. Yet, there are significant differences among the factors that could be attributed to age. Both, policy makers and ICT providers can benefit from the findings with regard to bridging the gap of ICT adoption and use in the Polish households.

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Ziemba

2016

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“…Much of the early research has approached the problem from the age-divide perspective, viewing elderly as a homogeneous group. Later studies have been concerned with investigation of specific motivations underlying adoption of ICT by older people with different backgrounds [ 5,6,7]. Age-divide in e-Government has also been a focus of several studies contributing to the literature on inclusive e-Government strategy development [8,9,10].Less attention has been given to Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

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Towards a framework for analyzing and comparing ICT for aging society policies

Ishmatova¹,

Hai

2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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This paper provides a framework for analyzing and comparing ICT for aging society policies by delineating 5 broad areas of contextual considerations. This framework is not a comprehensive list of all considerations but is intended to aid governments in their policy transfer decisions by providing flexibility in elaboration of relevant policy components based on countries' resources and peculiar conditions.

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