Characteristics of Technology Adoption by Older Adults with Visual Disabilities
Characteristics of Technology Adoption by Older Adults with Visual Disabilities
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DOI：
10.1080/10447318.2021.1876359
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发表时间：
2021-02-05
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Kim, Hyung Nam
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作者：
Kim, Hyung Nam
随着技术的进步，大量残疾人尝试和采用各种主流和辅助技术。然而，对视力残疾的老年人的关注较少，导致用户体验不佳和技术放弃。20名视力残疾的老年人（视力范围从20/70到失明，完全没有光感;视力丧失的持续时间，28.35 +/- 23.04岁;年龄，72.85 +/- 7.96岁）参加了半结构化访谈，并分享了他们采用和放弃技术的经验。创新理论的传播有助于深入了解视力残疾的老年用户如何采用或拒绝技术，通过相对优势，兼容性，可观察性，可试用性和复杂性讨论了各种特征。进一步分析了可用性、安全性和可访问性的相对优势，并将可用性方面细分为更详细的内容：有效性、效率和满意度。这项研究揭示了最终有助于设计，开发和实施未来创新技术的详细特征，以满足视力残疾老年人的需求。
As technology is advancing, a great number of people with disabilities try out and adopt various mainstream and assistive technologies. However, there has been less attention paid to older adults with visual disabilities, leading to poor user experience and technology abandonment. A convenience sample of 20 older adults with visual disabilities (visual acuity ranging from 20/70 to blind with no light perception at all; duration of vision loss, 28.35 +/- 23.04 years; age, 72.85 +/- 7.96 years) participated in semi-structured interviews and shared their experiences with technology adoption and abandonment. The diffusion of innovation theory helped to obtain a deep understanding of how older users with visual disabilities adopt or decline technologies, various characteristics of which were discussed through relative advantage, compatibility, observability, trialability, and complexity. The relative advantage was further analyzed for usability, safety, and accessibility, and the usability aspect was broken down into more details: effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. This study sheds light on the detailed characteristics that would ultimately contribute to designing, developing, and implementing future innovative technologies that meet the needs of the aging populations with visual disabilities.