期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2016
卷号：88
期号：1
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：The increasing number of aging populations worldwide versus the vast developments in mobile technology creates questions on how older adults adapt and apply mobile technology in their daily life. As older adults are said to be more spiritually inclined in the ageing process, thus, mobile spiritual applications can work as medium for serving the older adults spiritual needs. In this study, a series of workshop was conducted with fifteen volunteered older adults� participants to give exposure and experiences of using mobile spiritual android application. After about a week, an interview session was then conducted with the participants to investigate the older adults� design requirements for developing mobile spiritual application and also to investigate the older adults� interests in using mobile spiritual applications. As a result, these older adults appreciated and agreed on the benefits of the application. However, several issues arise in the existing mobile spiritual applications such as improper design for older adults, lack of exposure and fear towards technology deter their interests. Participation in the workshop is seen as one of effective way to reduce technology anxiety among the participants hence increased enthusiasm in learning new mobile applications, particularly for spiritual applications. Feedbacks that were gathered from interview session with the interviewees were highlighted in this paper to be the input in developing mobile spiritual application for older adult users in future.
关键词：Older People; Elderly; Spirituality; Mobile Phones; Techno-Spiritual; Qualitative
