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Cognitive Sensor Technologies

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 1953

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Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Católica de Valencia, San Vicente Mártir, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Interests: the impact of digitalization on cognition; the ageing process; the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) analysis in a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach
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Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of today’s society, humanity is facing more and more unprecedented challenges in a disproportionate threat to health, rights and well-being, among other things. Community-dwelling older adults are considered one of the most vulnerable profiles, and their chronic conditions may be aggravated by the consequences of confinement. However, these measures, which vary in their nature from country to country, have potentially unknown short-term, or even long-term, side effects. To date, most countries continue to discuss the implementation of protection rules for high-risk groups, such as the elderly, even after the end of wider regulations. According to these observations, the social disconnection of the elderly must also be taken into consideration, since this age group is the least adapted to digital technologies. A potential tool or strategy would be development and training in digital technology adoption to support families and communities. This call for manuscripts aims to promote research along these lines.

Prof. Dr. Carmen Moret-Tatay
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Keywords

  • assistive technology
  • technology adoption
  • cognition
  • ICT

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Testing a Model of Human Spatial Navigation Attitudes towards Global Navigation Satellite Systems
by Carmen Moret-Tatay, Maddalena Boccia, Alice Teghil and Cecilia Guariglia
Sensors 2022, 22(9), 3470; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s22093470 - 03 May 2022
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Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) can provide better data quality for different purposes; however, some age groups might lie outside its use. Understanding the barriers to its adoption is of interest in different fields. This work aims at developing a measurement instrument of [...] Read more.
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) can provide better data quality for different purposes; however, some age groups might lie outside its use. Understanding the barriers to its adoption is of interest in different fields. This work aims at developing a measurement instrument of the adoption attitudes towards this technology and examining the relationship of variables such as age and gender. A UTAUT model was tested on 350 participants. The main results can be summarised as follows: (i) the proposed GNSS scale on human spatial navigation attitudes towards geopositioning technology showed optimal psychometric properties; (ii) although statistically significant differences were found in the Wayfinding Questionnaire (WQ) between men and women, these did not reach the level of statistical significance for the scores on attitudes towards GNSS; (iii) by testing a model on human spatial navigation attitudes towards geopositioning technology, it was possible to show a higher relationship with age in women. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Sensor Technologies)
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