Location tracking: views from the older adult population.
Location tracking: views from the older adult population.
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DOI：
10.1093/ageing/aft069
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发表时间：
2013-11
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6.7
通讯作者：
Lisa A. Thomas;L. Little;P. Briggs;L. McInnes;E. Jones;James Nicholson
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作者：
Lisa A. Thomas;L. Little;P. Briggs;L. McInnes;E. Jones;James Nicholson
对允许人们看到朋友、家人和附近服务位于何处的社交媒体应用的使用已经增加。然而，尽管年轻人的采用率很高，但老年人的采用率相对较慢，尽管有潜在的健康和社会效益。在本文中，我们探讨的障碍，接受基于位置的服务（LBS）在社区的老年人。目的了解老年人对LBS技术的态度。方法：86名老年人使用LBS 1周，并完成使用前和使用后的问卷调查。来自第一项研究的20名志愿者在使用LBS技术后也完成了深入访谈。结果使用前问卷确定的有用性，个人隐私和可见性的预测意图使用位置跟踪服务的看法。使用后，感知风险是唯一的因素预测使用LBS的意图。对参与者的采访显示，LBS主要被视为一种辅助技术，信任和隐私问题很重要。这项研究的结果表明，老年人很难看到LBS的好处，并且有一些隐私问题可能会抑制未来对位置跟踪服务和设备的使用。
BACKGROUND there has been a rise in the use of social media applications that allow people to see where friends, family and nearby services are located. Yet while uptake has been high for younger people, adoption by older adults is relatively slow, despite the potential health and social benefits. In this paper, we explore the barriers to acceptance of location-based services (LBS) in a community of older adults. OBJECTIVE to understand attitudes to LBS technologies in older adults. METHODS eighty-six older adults used LBS for 1-week and completed pre- and post-use questionnaires. Twenty available volunteers from the first study also completed in-depth interviews after their experience using the LBS technology. RESULTS the pre-use questionnaire identified perceptions of usefulness, individual privacy and visibility as predictive of intentions to use a location-tracking service. Post-use, perceived risk was the only factor to predict intention to use LBS. Interviews with participants revealed that LBS was primarily seen as an assistive technology and that issues of trust and privacy were important. CONCLUSION the findings from this study suggest older adults struggle to see the benefits of LBS and have a number of privacy concerns likely to inhibit future uptake of location-tracking services and devices.