Conference paper
Elderly’s Perception about The Value of Assistive Technologies for their Daily Living: Impacting Factors and Theoretical Support
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp.3678-3685
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 50th (Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 04-Jan-2017–07-Jan-2017)
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
2017
Abstract
This paper presents a review of relevant studies found in a systematic search for research on the elderly's perception about the value of assistive technologies. We found that the majority of papers did not use any theory to frame the research question or explain their results. We suggest that invariably occurs in benefits realization through the use of empowering technologies designed to provide training to help older people maintain their functional capabilities. Maintaining these functional capabilities is important for people to live independently for longer and in order to assess the benefits more quickly; we suggest researchers use the capability approach. The existing theories of adoption appear to be much more suited to supportive technologies that aid elderly in their functional disabilities. This is mainly due to the fact that the immediate benefits i.e. usefulness of these technologies can be seen more easily compared to empowering technologies.
Details
- Title
- Elderly’s Perception about The Value of Assistive Technologies for their Daily Living: Impacting Factors and Theoretical Support
- Authors
- Suchada Vichitvanichphong (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringAmir Talaei-Khoei (Author) - University of Technology SydneyDon Kerr (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp.3678-3685
- Conference details
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 50th (Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 04-Jan-2017–07-Jan-2017)
- Publisher
- Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
- Date published
- 2017
- ISBN
- 9780998133102
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. This article is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451155002621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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