“…Previous literature reveals technological, sociocultural, and economic barriers for older people to use various kinds of technologies, e.g., mobile phones (Schaar et al, 2012). Age-related learning problems or poor learning memory is a major concern for older people handling a variety of available applications (Börsch-Supan et al, 2013;Morris et al, 2012;Dumas, 2017), together with aging body-related issues like hand tremors when using touch screens, prolonged search for icons, delays in deciding which of them to choose, quickly forgetting the points learnt (Hardill, 2012;Lelkes, 2013;Hoogendam et al, 2014), vision and hearing problems (Michalowsky et al, 2019). Insufficient technological literacy (Takahashi et al, 2014;Lelkes, 2013), as well as lack of English knowledge, predominant negative attitudes toward the use of mobile phones, inability to upgrade the software and high costs are also found to be important factors (Navabi et al, 2016, Van Deursen & Helsper, 2015.…”