(ANSA) - MILAN, 27 DEC - The digital literacy project organized by the Golgi Cenci Foundation with the Bicocca University of Milan will go live in January.
Thanks to the use of tablets provided by the Austrian company Emporia, which has also been present in Italy for a few months, the over 75 guests of the Foundation's Rsa will be able to take their first steps into the world of technology. supported by thirty students from the university. An age group that, according to the specialist Emporia, presents various difficulties in approaching the so-called standard technology, very specific necessities of understanding basic methods of use.
Emporia products are the result of research and audits organized for the "over" target, taking into account the need for large buttons, legible icons and many other functions that for other users would be of little importance, almost defects. According to a research carried out in 2021 in collaboration with Astra Ricerche, Emporia has identified that Italian seniors are increasingly independent in the choice of their smartphone (65.1%) and in its first use (51.9%), exploiting the isolation caused by pandemic to discover new features of their device (49.4%).
65.1% of the interviewees declared that they had completed the purchase process of their mobile telephone device alone, while only 24.5% had left the burden to their children or relatives.
With the spread of the coronavirus, the consequent isolation and social distancing, the smartphone has acquired an increasingly important role in countering loneliness, so much so that 72.6% of respondents say that the pandemic has shown them how important it is that all generations are digitally capable. while 61.9% replied that their mobile phone prevented them from feeling totally excluded during the lockdown.
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