Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones

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Autor(a) principal: Vicente, P.
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Lopes, I.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12129
Resumo: Research on mobile technology adoption has focused predominantly on young adults, and little attention has been paid to older people. But with rapidly aging populations in most developed countries, and evidence from many studies that older adults are as capable of adopting and using mobile technology as everybody else, the academic, business and technology industry worlds are devoting more attention to this group. Research has already demonstrated that older people differ from young people in their perceptions, preferences and usage of mobile technology, but there are also differences within the older adults group regarding mobile technology adoption. Using data from a mobile phone survey, this study identifies segments of mobile phone users among older adults based on their attitudes towards mobile phones, and describes the underlying differences between these segments in terms of key values towards mobile phone communications, mobile phone use, and socio-demographics. The analysis led to the identification of three distinct segments, designated as "Apathetic", "Social and hedonic" and "Busy and active".
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title Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
spellingShingle Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
Vicente, P.
Older adults
Mobile phones
Technology adoption
Segmentation
title_short Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
title_full Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
title_fullStr Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
title_full_unstemmed Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
title_sort Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones
author Vicente, P.
author_facet Vicente, P.
Lopes, I.
author_role author
author2 Lopes, I.
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vicente, P.
Lopes, I.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Older adults
Mobile phones
Technology adoption
Segmentation
topic Older adults
Mobile phones
Technology adoption
Segmentation
description Research on mobile technology adoption has focused predominantly on young adults, and little attention has been paid to older people. But with rapidly aging populations in most developed countries, and evidence from many studies that older adults are as capable of adopting and using mobile technology as everybody else, the academic, business and technology industry worlds are devoting more attention to this group. Research has already demonstrated that older people differ from young people in their perceptions, preferences and usage of mobile technology, but there are also differences within the older adults group regarding mobile technology adoption. Using data from a mobile phone survey, this study identifies segments of mobile phone users among older adults based on their attitudes towards mobile phones, and describes the underlying differences between these segments in terms of key values towards mobile phone communications, mobile phone use, and socio-demographics. The analysis led to the identification of three distinct segments, designated as "Apathetic", "Social and hedonic" and "Busy and active".
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