Teaching older adults to use gerontechnology applications through instruction videos: Human-element considerations

Pei Lee Teh, Chee Wei Phang, Pervaiz K. Ahmed, Soon Nyean Cheong, Wen Jiun Yap, Qi Ma, Alan H.S. Chan

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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the effect of human narrator (vis-à-vis an artificially-created cartoon narrator) in designing instruction videos to teach older adults to use gerontechnology applications. Additionally, we assess whether there is a difference if the human narrator is a child, a young adult, or an older adult. A sample of 124 older adults was collected to test the research hypotheses. Our findings suggest that in general instruction videos with human narrators are preferred by the older adults over the one without (i.e., cartoon character). More interestingly, the older adults prefer child as the human narrator (to young adult and older adult), as reflected in the highest perceived effectiveness and social presence of the video garnered among all the video versions. These insights have important implications on teaching and promoting older adults’ use of gerontechnology applications via instruction videos. We conclude this paper with a discussion on the research implications, limitations and future research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages582-591
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10281
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Child
  • Gerontechnology
  • Human narrator
  • Instruction videos
  • Older adults
  • Training

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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