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Technologies and Images of Older Women

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society (HCII 2020)

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This study is focused on indicators of participation and favourable perception about life in women over 50 years, which are positively associated with technology dispositive aids, social images and identity. Furthermore, stereotypes and image of older women are concepts more negative for older women in comparison to older men. This includes the idea of how technology and cyber-technology have some impact on the positive mobility of older women related to aspects such as participation, perception of life and social and self-perceived image. This chapter aims to explore such dimension in Spain. In addition, the chapter refers to the use of technological devices for functional support (e.g. Tele-care and alarm devices, electric wheelchairs, buggies and scooters). In any case, the main use of devices could be explained because older women manifest a greater need for them and also because they have vital positive attitude and perceptions towards an “ikigai” (oriental concept referring to these concepts) more positive to address the problems. All of this justifies the unmet demand for technology and devices used to support older people, particularly women. This mixed picture also shows the need to improve the social image and further research (from a gender, tecno-feminist and socio-spatial perspectives) in the applicability of systems that seek greater functional mobility of a more active aging, better images and an improvement in the quality of life and a reduction of the digital divide for older women.

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    María Silveria Agulló-Tomás & Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz

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Agulló-Tomás, M.S., Zorrilla-Muñoz, V. (2020). Technologies and Images of Older Women. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12209. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50232-4_12

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