The use of IOT to improve the ICTS usability for older people. Breaking down the technologic neophobia barrier

• Katrina Espinar Herranz ^[1] ; María Inés García Ramón ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

     Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: Edunovatic 2018. Conference Proceedings: 3rd Virtual International Conference on Education, Innovation and ICT. 17-19 December, 2018, 2019, ISBN 978-94-92805-08-9, pág. 235
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The European population ageing has been announced by a population decline in consequence of, inter alia, the decrease of the birthrate and the evolution of the figure of the traditional family. It is therefore a matter of urgency to take measures aimed at the most aged segment of the population to do that this one is a full participant stakeholder in the information society in order to contribute thereby to the its improvement and, hence, to help it to reach the status quo. This includes, thus, providing them their real participation in the digital revolution. Nevertheless, not being native digital ones themselves, a great part of this population shows a technological neophobia, in other words, a resistance to use and to try new technologies, including the communication and information technologies. The side effects of the integration of the ICTs in the school with students within a context of formal education has been examined extensively, but there is quite little scientific literature about its use through the IOT (Internet Of the Things) and its effects in the elderly age. Additionally, the scientific literature about the integration of those ICTs in the elderly age used with social integration purposes is very limited, apart from the fact that there is no any precedent of existing good practices regarding the diametrical use of ICTs together with an effective methodology of teaching-and-learning that enables a constructive and meaningful learning, which at the same time tries to promote social integration through the use of such technologies. With this purpose, the methodology used is the one of focus groups made up of older people.