User Perceptions and Needs Analysis of a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing-An International Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Virtual coaching systems show great potential for meeting the challenges of demographic change. However, the proportion of older users in the field of digital technologies is far behind that of younger people. As part of the e-VITA project, semi-structured interviews were conducted in Japan, France, Italy and Germany with 58 people aged 65 and over, and the content was analyzed with the aim of obtaining information about how older adults organize their everyday lives, also with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, how they deal with their health, what role digital technologies play in the lives of the interviewees and why they oppose progressive digitization. Second, the survey asked why the older adults oppose a virtual coach, which is to be developed in the e-VITA project to support older ad

SUBMITTER: Moller J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9408500 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature