Abstract
The number of apps with application in the field of active ageing has been increasingly used. In the AGEment project, an app to raise awareness among older adults towards the concept of active ageing, linking it to cultural heritage, has been developed. Validation of the app has been performed to evaluate the user-friendliness and the appropriateness of the awareness content, in which 51 older adult end users from 5 different countries have participated. Users have tested the app on their mobile smartphones and were requested to complete an online questionnaire with questions about content, usability and functionality, according to the e-MIS validation methodology. Results show that the AGEment app was considered as acceptable by the participants according to the usability validation (System Usability Scale score = 79.80). The most positive aspects of functionality (average score of 4.44 out of 5) were those related to the accessibility of the app. Nonetheless, the intuitiveness of the app and the loading of pages should be improved. Regarding user’s perception of contents, they were evaluated positively (average score of 4.45 out of 5), especially in terms of quality and relevance in promoting active ageing. In conclusion, the app developed has been positively validated at the user level in terms of content, usability, and functionality. All content of the app is freely accessible in English and four other languages. In future works, more innovative and diverse content should be developed through the collaboration of older users, who are active co-producers and protagonists of the content.
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The AGEment project (Adult senior awareness active ageing: connecting cultural heritage with elders empowering) has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under the grant number 2018–1-ES01-KA204–050994.
GR21201, funded by the Regional Ministry of Economy, Science and Digital Agenda of the Government of Extremadura, and co-financed by the European Union (ERDF “A way of doing Europe”).
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Ortega Morán, J.F., Vila-cha, C., Zamillo, D., Curaj, A., Sánchez Margallo, F.M., Pagador, J.B. (2023). Validation of an App for the Awareness of Active Ageing Linked to Cultural Heritage. In: Moguel, E., de Pinho, L.G., Fonseca, C. (eds) Gerontechnology V. IWoG 2022. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29067-1_15
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