An Exploratory Study of the Elderly's Perception of Digital Goods and Legacies
Abstract
The number of people in third age group and use cellphones can increase every year in Brazil. This trend makes them producers of digital assets (which may become a legacy), due to the constant generation of data. This exploratory study had a quantitative and qualitative approach with the use of a questionnaire as a data collection technique to address the research subject - to investigate the perspective of the elderly in relation to legacy and digital goods. The results show the thoughts of this generation on the subject. It is concluded by the importance of the results that it is still necessary to have a bigger study with the third age, for the development of initiatives that help to improve the knowledge and use of technology as well as to increase their perception about their digital goods.
Keywords:
Elderly users, Digital goods, Digital assets
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Published
2020-06-30
How to Cite
VERHALEN, Aline; MACIEL, Cristiano; DE SOUZA, Patricia.
An Exploratory Study of the Elderly's Perception of Digital Goods and Legacies. In: WORKSHOP ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING IN SOCIETY (WICS), 1. , 2020, Cuiabá.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2020
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p. 61-72.
ISSN 2763-8707.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wics.2020.11037.
