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Living Labs are spaces and laboratories created in natural areas aimed at social innovation. The basic principle of these labs is improving people's quality of life and the improvement of regions, the functioning of companies, etc. One of the areas in which Living Labs interventions are applied is the elderly. Seniorlabs are initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life of older people. Actions include improving physical health, mental health, the home, and technologies for these purposes. The qualitative study presented in this document has been carried out to determine the relationship between the elderly and digital technology, in other words, what use the elderly make of it. It also aims to answer the research question: do people over 65 use technology in their daily lives? Using a phenomenological perspective, semi-structured interviews were conducted with people over 65 years of age in Spain to carry out the study. From the study, it can be concluded that various initiatives are optimistically being carried out in different European countries and that impact research on these actions is being published. Finally, it can also be concluded that older people use fewer technologies in their daily lives than those that exist to make their lives easier. The main reasons for this are that they do not know how to use them or are afraid to use them and damage the device.
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The research presented has been carried out in the framework of the project <<Subjective adaptability in technological environments and life-based gerontechnological innovation (Seniorlab-LBD)>> of the 2019 call for R+D+i projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-107826GB-I00).
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García, J.L.C. et al. (2022). A Qualitative Study and Analysis on the Use, Utility, and Emotions of Technology by the Elderly in Spain. In: Costa, A.P., Moreira, A., Sánchez‑Gómez, M.C., Wa-Mbaleka, S. (eds) Computer Supported Qualitative Research. WCQR 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 466. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04680-3_16
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