FACTORS DISTURBING INTERNET USAGE IN OPINION OF ELDERLY USERS
FACTORS DISTURBING INTERNET USAGE IN OPINION OF ELDERLY USERS

Summary/Abstract: Internet became truly widespread in modern societies. This created its huge economic potential, which is widely used, especially in traditionally communication-oriented societies like USA and Scandinavian countries. This trend enables to create economic growth even despite of worldwide economic slowdown. Together with demographic changes this raise the necessity of research on how older users perceive modern, Internet-based tools and products and which factors disturb them. This seems to be vital in order to let older users effectively use modern tools and products. In this paper authors discuss basic factors that led to this situation. It is followed by outcomes of research driven in Poland in April 2012 on elderly students. This allowed to identify and discuss most irritating factors in Internet use for elderly Internet users.

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