Fracture num\'erique chez les seniors du 4eme age. Observation d'une acculturation technique

TL;DR

This study examines how very old individuals adopt and benefit from gerontechnology, analyzing social justice implications and technological acceptance through qualitative and quantitative research.

Contribution

It introduces an adapted TAM model to analyze technological acceptance among very old people and explores its role in social justice.

Findings

Identification of factors influencing technology acceptance

Evidence of social justice in technology access

Insights into the adoption process among very old individuals

Abstract

Very old people accumulate the "handicaps": social, physical, psychological or cognitive. Various research thus developed to determine there waiting and needs and also to see the benefit possibly produced by technologies (called ?gerontechnology?) on their living conditions. The object of this article is to present the numerical service offer to very old perople and to see how it takes part in a social justice according to the definition of Rawls (principle of equal freedom, principle of equal opportunity in the access). The adoption, the use and the benefit of technology are analyzed in a theoretical way through a state of the art and in an experimental way through a qualitative and quantitative investigation carried out with a population of very old people. We propose to identify dynamic technological acceptance of old people according to the TAM'S (Technology Acceptance Model) of Davis adapted by (Hamner and Qazi, 2008).