The reasons why elderly mobile users adopt ubiquitous mobile social service
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Highlights：
• Integrating Uses and Gratification Theory with Media Richness Theory.
• Analyzing the motivations of elderly users' adoption toward mobile social service.
• Except for epistemic, all the motivations have influence on elderly users' adoption.
• Perceived interactive richness and self-efficacy are important for elderly users.
• Users' inertia of sociality in traditional ways has negative influence on adoption.
摘要
•Integrating Uses and Gratification Theory with Media Richness Theory.•Analyzing the motivations of elderly users' adoption toward mobile social service.•Except for epistemic, all the motivations have influence on elderly users' adoption.•Perceived interactive richness and self-efficacy are important for elderly users.•Users' inertia of sociality in traditional ways has negative influence on adoption.
论文关键词：Elderly mobile users,Ubiquitous mobile social service,Uses and gratification theory,Media richness theory,Perceived interactive richness,Apps self-efficacy,Inertia
论文评审过程：Received 25 June 2018, Revised 11 November 2018, Accepted 3 December 2018, Available online 3 December 2018, Version of Record 18 January 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.005
