An Investigation of Social Inclusion through Wearable Technologies on Technical Self-Efficacies of Elderly

摘要

Mobile applications are prevalent in the society, consisting of population with different age groups, including a large proportion of elderly. Despite of the increasing number of elderly, we seldom take constraints of elderly into consideration when developing technologies, resulting in them being excluded in the society. In this study, we propose for wearable devices to be interfaced with gestures or eye-trackers. Wearable devices are anything that is worn. Thus, such interfaced wearable technology could be integrated into their daily activities so that they can be included into the society. To fill the gap of the need for interfaced wearable devices, this study draws upon expectancy-value theory to examine the significance of elderly's technical self-efficacy behind the adoption of wearable technologies. As an emergent research, we plan to evaluate the effects of elderly's technical self-efficacy empirically. This study will provide significant theoretical and practical contributions to existing knowledge about wearable technologies.