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Effects of culture and age on attitudes to mobile technology

Use of mobile technology is becoming a necessary part of everyday life – and not just in the developed world. Exclusion – for any reason – is a serious disadvantage and one group who face exclusion is older people. This research looked into reasons why older people in a developed country (the UK) an...

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Main Author: Abd Malik, Sofianiza
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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QA Mathematics
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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spelling my.iium.irep.249962012-09-10T23:52:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/24996/ Effects of culture and age on attitudes to mobile technology Abd Malik, Sofianiza QA Mathematics QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Use of mobile technology is becoming a necessary part of everyday life – and not just in the developed world. Exclusion – for any reason – is a serious disadvantage and one group who face exclusion is older people. This research looked into reasons why older people in a developed country (the UK) and a developing country (Malaysia) might be excluded. The project first tackled the problem of how to elicit information from these people, applying talking methods, with and without personas. The results were probed more deeply and verified through a card-sorting study and a questionnaire. A number of problems common among all the participants were found. In addition there were some culture-related differences between the countries, although they were small. 2012-06 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24996/1/1569548979.pdf Abd Malik, Sofianiza (2012) Effects of culture and age on attitudes to mobile technology. In: International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS 2012), 12-14 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Abd Malik, Sofianiza
Effects of culture and age on attitudes to mobile technology
description Use of mobile technology is becoming a necessary part of everyday life – and not just in the developed world. Exclusion – for any reason – is a serious disadvantage and one group who face exclusion is older people. This research looked into reasons why older people in a developed country (the UK) and a developing country (Malaysia) might be excluded. The project first tackled the problem of how to elicit information from these people, applying talking methods, with and without personas. The results were probed more deeply and verified through a card-sorting study and a questionnaire. A number of problems common among all the participants were found. In addition there were some culture-related differences between the countries, although they were small.
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author Abd Malik, Sofianiza
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title Effects of culture and age on attitudes to mobile technology
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publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/24996/1/1569548979.pdf
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