User requirements of social media for the elderly: a case study in Taiwan

Social networking sites and older users – a systematic review

“…As a working definition for this review and for exclusion criterion A, the chronological age of ≥55 years was used. The authors feel that 65 years might be more appropriate, but several articles use ≥55 years to characterize old (Lehtinen et al, 2009;Karimi and Neustaedter, 2010;Chou et al, 2012), so we adopted this artificial definition. The screening of the articles with regard to the exclusion criteria was performed independently by two authors.…”

“…There is a clear need for more studies that observe older people when using SNS (Lehtinen et al, 2009;Chou et al, 2012). As mentioned before, special attention should be directed to assess possible negative side effects (e.g.…”

“…This difference is not well reflected in the reviewed articles. However, the following general requirements are stated in several reviewed papers: extreme protection of personal information, clear layouts, reduced content, and elimination of extraneous or irrelevant information (Cornejo et al, 2010;Chou et al, 2012). Two groups suggest touchscreens as an appropriate interface technology (Teixeira, 2011;Tsai et al, 2011).…”

“…One publication (Chou et al, 2012) reported results from questionnaires (N = 60) and observations A touchscreen-based graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed that enables older adults to send SMSs and email, and share calendar data. The usability was tested in ten older adults.…”

Jubilados en Twitter. Análisis de narrativas y seminalidad en los tuits de personas mayores para la discusión de temas públicos. El caso de Chile / Retired people on Twitter. Analysis of narratives and seminality of elders’ tweets commenting on public affairs. The case of Chile

“…De este modo, los estudios encontrados se enfocan principalmente en los procesos de adopción de tecnología, usando para el análisis el Technology Adoption Model (TAM) (Ramón-Jerónimo, Peral-Peral, & Arenas-Gaitán, 2013) o el Technology Adoption Propensity Index (TAP-I) (Farias, Vitor, Lins, Pedroza, & Eduardo, 2015). De este modo, buscan evaluar cuáles son las barreras de acceso de los adultos mayores a los sitios web de redes sociales, especialmente por una falta de adaptación en el diseño de las interfaces (Chou, Lai, & Liu, 2013). Asimismo, se establece que los adultos mayores presentan dificultades en el manejo digital en comparación con grupos etarios más jóvenes (Tsai, Chang, & Ho, 2016) y se abordan, entre otras aprensiones considerables, las sensaciones de dependencia, vulnerabilidad y discapacidad en el uso de las tecnologías (Farias et al, 2015).…”