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Although mobile phone usage has grown rapidly among Korean elderly people, their usage is largely limited to talking, while younger users exchange text messages as well as talk with their mobile phones. As a result, the gap between the elderly and the young in the usage pattern is widening. The curr...

Although mobile phone usage has grown rapidly among Korean elderly people, their usage is largely limited to talking, while younger users exchange text messages as well as talk with their mobile phones. As a result, the gap between the elderly and the young in the usage pattern is widening. The current study aims to understand the usage gap based on the perspective of the technology adoption model. The findings are as follows: First, the technology adoption model has been constructed around young users, and this model is inappropriate in explaining the usage patterns of the elderly. Ease of use is arguably the most important factor for the elderly to adopt mobile phones. Even though an elderly user has an intention to use a mobile phone, it is practically impossible for her or him to adopt it if it is not easy to use. Secondly, analyses show that mobile phone usage education is effective for those under 78 years old to improve the ease of use. Thirdly, technical language used in mobile phones seriously diminishes the ease of use for the elderly.

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