Digital Skills for Elderly People: A Learning Experiment in Four European Countries
| Autor: | Borka Jerman Blažič, Andrej Jerman Blažič |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
History Smart phone 05 social sciences Applied psychology Exploratory research 020207 software engineering Cognition 02 engineering and technology Digital skills law.invention Touchscreen law 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Elderly people 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Erasmus+ 050107 human factors Motor skill |
| Zdroj: | Review of European Studies. 10:74 |
| ISSN: | 1918-7181 1918-7173 |
| DOI: | 10.5539/res.v10n4p74 |
| Popis: | The problem of learning digital skills among the elderly addressed in this paper is focused on a methodology that tries to overcome the barriers in adoption of touchscreen digital technology faced by older adults, by using a game-based learning approach. The paper provides an overview of some early results and findings from an exploratory study among the elderly from four European countries based on the use of touchscreen tablets for playing games as a pre-course activity for learning how to use a smart phone. The learning was carried out with pre-selected games designed to enhance the motor skills of the players and improve the coordination between cognitive and motor skills capacity. The results presented in the paper were collected within the partners of the project GIRDA – Gameplay foR Inspiring Digital Adoption from the European ERASMUS+ programme. The paper describes the research setting, the experiments and the results accompanied by discussion and the conclusion. |
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