Essays about: "Shivan Meymo"

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  1. 1. Why do elderly not use socialmedia? : An investigation of the elderly’s attitudes to HCI.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

    Author : Shivan Meymo; Nyström Kenn; [2017]
    Keywords : Elderly and Social media; Pîr Û medyaya civakî; المسنين ومواقع التواصل الاجتماعي; äldre och sociala medier;

    Abstract : How do social media and internet usage look like in the eyes of ageing people, specifically those at the age of 80 years or above that live independently? What technologies are most interesting to them and why? What do they struggle with that could lead them to avoid specific technologies or to prefer one technology more than others? The reason of the study was to get an insight of elderlies attitudes, regarding technologies in general and social media specifically, to know what hinders those seniors to be excluded of the recent technologies and to not be plugged into cyberspace. The specific questions that the research wanted to answer were “What are the actual barriers for internet use among the elderly?” and “Also, what could be done to address these barriers?”. READ MORE