Engaging Older Adults with Modern Technology: Internet Use and Information Access Needs

ISBN-13: 9781466619661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 350 str.

Robert Z. Zheng; Robert D. Hill; Michael K. Gardener

Opis

The study of older adults and internet use has emerged as a specific area of interest which covers a wide range of topics ranging from behaviors of senior adults in information search to attitude toward the internet, to the use of the internet for personal and health issues, and to cognitive constrains of seniors in Internet use.Engaging Older Adults with Modern Technology: Internet Use and Information Access Needs takes a structured approach to the research in aging and digital technology in which older adults' use of internet and other forms of digital technologies is studied through the lenses of cognitive functioning, motivation, and affordances of new technology.