What motivates customers to shop in smart shops? The impacts of smart technology and technology readiness

This study aims to explore the key systematic attributes influencing the acceptance of gerontechnology by seniors in response to global aging and rapid technological progress. A meta-analysis was carried out to quantitatively synthesize the results of 25 empirical studies published from 2010 to 2020. After standardized coding and descriptive statistics, as well as tests and analysis of main effects and heterogeneity, publication bias. The following results were obtained: Perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use have a significant positive impact on the user’s attitude and behavioral intention; performance expectancy, effort expectancy, trust, technical performance and subjective norm have a significant positive correlation with the user’s behavioral intention; social influence, facilitating conditions have a positive correlation with the user’s behavioral intention; anxiety has a significant negative correlation to the user’s behavioral intention. The key systematic influencing attributes are classified into three categories: (1) User individual characteristics; (2) product and technical characteristics; and (3) environmental characteristics. This study provides researchers and practitioners with a systematic evidence-based basis to reduce the gap in decision-making for gerontechnology practices.

Exploring the Systematic Attributes Influencing Gerontechnology Adoption for Elderly Users Using a Meta-Analysis

The current study examines how the perception of negative consequences or risks interacts with hedonic and utilitarian values in predicting gamers’ continuance intention to play online games. We ex...

Understanding Continuance Intention to Play Online Games: The Roles of Hedonic Value, Utilitarian Value and Perceived Risk

This study aims to predict and explain the acceptance of social video platforms for learning. A research model is proposed that explains that the intention of using these platforms is based on the perception of performance, social influence, and hedonic motivation. To validate the model, 568 Brazilian YouTube users were surveyed. The data were analyzed with partial least squares structural equations modeling (PLS-SEM). In particular, the predictive power of the model was assessed using the PLSpredict procedure. The results of this study can help to understand and forecast the use of these platforms for learning in developing countries.

Predicting and Explaining the Acceptance of Social Video Platforms for Learning: The Case of Brazilian YouTube Users

The growth of older adults in new regions poses challenges for public health. We know that these seniors live increasingly alone, and this impairs their health and general wellbeing. Studies suggest that social networking sites (SNS) can reduce isolation, improve social participation, and increase autonomy. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the characteristics of older adult users of SNS in these new territories. Without this information, it is not possible to improve the adoption of SNS in this population. Based on decision trees, this study analyzes how the elderly users of various SNS in Chile are like. For this purpose, a segmentation of the different groups of elderly users of social networks was constructed, and the most discriminating variables concerning the use of these applications were classified. The results highlight the existence of considerable differences between the various social networks analyzed in their use and characterization. Educational level is the most discriminating variable, and gender influences the types of SNS use. In general, it is observed that the higher the educational level, the more the different social networking sites are used.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/17/6078/pdf

Social Network Communications in Chilean Older Adults.

Previous studies suggest that older adults are living increasingly alone and without the company of their close relatives, which cause them depression problems and a detriment to their health and general wellbeing. The use of social network sites (SNS) allows them to reduce their isolation, improve their social participation, and increase their autonomy. Although the adoption of various information technologies by older adults has been studied, some assumptions still predominate, for example, that older adults use SNS only for utilitarian purposes. However, considering SNS as hedonic information systems, and in order to extend the theoretical explanation of the intention to use hedonic systems to their actual use, this study aims to determine the influence of perceived enjoyment, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use on the use of SNS by elders in Concepcion, Chile. Two hundred fifty-three older adults participated in the cross-sectional study. The results indicate that perceived ease of use is the variable that has the greatest total effect in explaining the use of SNS and that by adding the perceived enjoyment construct, the explanatory power of the model increases significantly. Therefore, advancement in user acceptance models, especially in the use of SNS by elders, can be made by focusing on the type of system, hedonic or utilitarian.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/10/1673/pdf

Explaining the Use of Social Network Sites as Seen by Older Adults: The Enjoyment Component of a Hedonic Information System

This study analyzes the adoption of social networks by the elderly. This age group decreases its participation in social activities due to the deterioration in its physical capacities, isolating it from the rest of the world. The use of social networks helps to keep the person connected reducing their feeling of loneliness, which contributes to improving their quality of life. Based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), this research studies the impact of perceptions of usefulness and ease of use in the use of social networks and analyzes the audacity and technological anxiety of the elderly as external antecedents of the model. All the hypotheses are validated and the use of socialnetworks by the older adult in Chile is explained by 38%.

Leonard Belmar Órdenes

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Explaining the Use of Social Network Sites as Seen by Older Adults: The Enjoyment Component of a Hedonic Information System

Social network sites and elders: An empirical study