Zhang, M;
(2023)
Older people’s attitudes towards emerging technologies: A systematic literature review.
Public Understanding of Science
, 32
(8)
pp. 948-968.
10.1177/09636625231171677.
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Abstract
Public attitudes towards technology have been studied extensively for decades, but older people were not largely involved in early studies. In recent years, with the trend of digitalisation and the rapid growth of the older population around the world, the attitudes of older people towards emerging technologies have attracted the attention of researchers. This article is a systematic review of 83 relevant studies, to summarise the factors that impact older adults’ attitudes towards adopting and using technology. It is found that older people’s attitudes are influenced by their personal characteristics, technology-related factors and the social context of technology adoption. The complex relationship between older people and technology is interpreted by researchers with the framing of older people’s identity, the role of technology, the interaction of the above factors and the opportunity for older adults to act as co-designers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Older people’s attitudes towards emerging technologies: A systematic literature review |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/09636625231171677 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231171677 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Attitudes, literature review, older people, technology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187800 |
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