Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing
The world population is projected to rapidly age over the next 30 years. Given the increasing digital technology adoption amongst older adults, researchers have investigated how technology can support aging populations. However, little work has examined how technology can support older adults during...
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| author | Nurul M., Suhaimi Zhang, Yixuan Joseph, Mary Kim, Miso Parker, Andrea G. Griffin, Jacqueline |
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| description | The world population is projected to rapidly age over the next 30 years. Given the increasing digital technology adoption amongst older adults, researchers have investigated how technology can support aging populations. However, little work has examined how technology can support older adults during crises, despite increasingly common natural disasters, public health emergencies, and other crisis scenarios in which older adults are especially vulnerable. Addressing this gap, we conducted focus groups with older adults residing in coastal locations to examine to what extent they felt technology could support them during emergencies. Our findings characterize participants' desire for tools that enhance community resilience-local knowledge, preparedness, community relationships, and communication, that help communities withstand disasters. Further, older adults' crisis technology preferences were linked to their sense of control, social relationships, and digital readiness. We discuss how a focus on community resilience can yield crisis technologies that more effectively support older adults. |
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| spelling | ump-354492022-10-28T02:08:10Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/35449/ Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing Nurul M., Suhaimi Zhang, Yixuan Joseph, Mary Kim, Miso Parker, Andrea G. Griffin, Jacqueline T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics The world population is projected to rapidly age over the next 30 years. Given the increasing digital technology adoption amongst older adults, researchers have investigated how technology can support aging populations. However, little work has examined how technology can support older adults during crises, despite increasingly common natural disasters, public health emergencies, and other crisis scenarios in which older adults are especially vulnerable. Addressing this gap, we conducted focus groups with older adults residing in coastal locations to examine to what extent they felt technology could support them during emergencies. Our findings characterize participants' desire for tools that enhance community resilience-local knowledge, preparedness, community relationships, and communication, that help communities withstand disasters. Further, older adults' crisis technology preferences were linked to their sense of control, social relationships, and digital readiness. We discuss how a focus on community resilience can yield crisis technologies that more effectively support older adults. Association for Computing Machinery 2022-04-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/35449/2/Investigating%20older%20adults%27%20attitudes%20towards%20crisis%20informatics%20tools_opportunities%20for%20enhancing_Abs.pdf Nurul M., Suhaimi and Zhang, Yixuan and Joseph, Mary and Kim, Miso and Parker, Andrea G. and Griffin, Jacqueline (2022) Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing. In: CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 29 April - 5 May 2022 , New Orleans, LA, USA. pp. 1-16. (258). ISBN 978-145039157-3 (Published) https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517528 |
| spellingShingle | T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Nurul M., Suhaimi Zhang, Yixuan Joseph, Mary Kim, Miso Parker, Andrea G. Griffin, Jacqueline Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing |
| title | Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing |
| title_full | Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing |
| title_fullStr | Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing |
| title_short | Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing |
| title_sort | investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: opportunities for enhancing |
| topic | T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
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