The impact of technophobia on technology acceptance and the moderating influence of transformational leadership, organizational climate, and emotional intelligence

This study sought to investigate the relationship between technophobia and technology acceptance. In addition, this study examined the moderating influence of variables such as transformational leadership, organizational climate, and emotional intelligence has any influence on that relationship. This study determined that there is a significant negative relationship between technophobia and technology acceptance. Furthermore, all moderating variable were found to have a strong moderating influence on the relationship between technophobia and technology acceptance. In other words, transformational leadership, organizational climate, and emotional intelligence lessen the strength of the negative correlation to the point that technophobia and technology acceptance were no longer correlated. Previous studies investigate technophobia using technologies that are no longer new; computers, fax machine, email, VCRs, and ATMs. In the conclusion of the study, it was suggested the future studies should further investigate technophobia with different variables

Old Games, Same Concerns: Examining First Generation Video Games Through Popular Press Coverage from 1972-1985

This study explores early video game technology by examining video game fears in the popular press in the 1970s and 1980s. This textual analysis examines games during their formative years, assesses risks associated with new technology, and encourages critical examination of technophobia in news media. This topic is particularly relevant in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding video game regulation. Key findings include: physical ailment fears, deviant behavior fears, fears related to drug use, and violent behavior fears. These fears persist, for the most part, in contemporary mainstream coverage

A Study of Technophobia in The Use of ICT Among Secondary School Teachers in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh

This study explores the widespread problem of technophobia among Andhra Pradesh's Vizianagaram district's secondary school teachers with reference to the employment of information and communication technology (ICT) in the classroom. It investigates the impact of a number of demographic factors on teachers' technophobia, including gender, marital status, age, title, teaching experience, institution location, kind of school administration, and instruction medium. The "Teachers’ Technophobia Scale," a standardized questionnaire, and a descriptive survey approach are used in this study to gather data from 500 instructors in 60 secondary schools. Results show various insights. Technophobia was shown to be unaffected significantly by factors such as gender, marital status, age, designation, and style of school administration. Teachers with more than ten years of experience, however, showed greater degrees of technophobia. Technophobia was shown to be more prevalent among rural instructors than in their urban counterparts, and it was not significantly influenced by the medium of teaching. The study also found three aspects of technophobia, with anxiety being the main factor leading to technophobia. These dimensions include teachers' apprehension about ICT, their access to ICT resources, and their views about using ICT tools. The consequences for education include the need for professional development in integrating technology into classroom instruction, the requirement for teacher orientation programs on ICT, and the promotion of confidence in technology use. The report outlines tactics for reducing technophobia and makes recommendations for actions academic associations may take to help secondary schools successfully integrate ICT. In the end, this study highlights how crucial it is to deal with technophobia in order to maximize the advantages of technology integration in the classroom

PERAN KOMUNIKASI KELUARGA DALAM MENGATASI TECHNOPHOBIA PADA PEREMPUAN (Studi Kualitatif di Kota Medan)

Technophobia  adalah  suatu  keadaan   dimana   seseorang   merasakan   kecemasan  dan ketakutakan dalam menggunakan teknologi.  Manusia  menciptakan  teknologi untuk mendukung aktivitas agar lebih efektif dan efisien. Teknologi tersebut dapat dimanfaatkan untuk menjalin komunikasi, mengakses informasi dan memudahkan pekerjaan manusia. Setiap orang memiliki hak yang sama untuk mendapatkan kesempatan dan kemampuan terakses dengan teknologi. Untuk dapat terakses dengan teknologi, manusia tidak cukup hanya memiliki peralatan dan biaya, namun diperlukan pengetahuan tentang bagaimana menggunakan teknologi itu sendiri. Seseorang yang mengalami technophobia tentu tidak dapat merasakan manfaat dari perkembangan teknologi dan hal tersebut tentu sangat merugikan. Keluarga, sebagai unit terkecil dari masyarakat, merupakan asal mula sebuah kebiasaan terbentuk. Komunikasi keluarga, sebagai proses penyampaian pesan antar anggota keluarga berperan penting dalam mengatasi anggota keluarga yang mengalami technophobia. Melalui kajian ini, tim peneliti berharap dapat mengetahui, penyebab perempuan mengalami technophobia dan bagaimana peran komunikasi keluarga dalam mengatasi technophobia. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif direncanakan dilaksanakan selama satu tahun, dengan wawancara dan Focus Group Discussion (FGD) sebagai metode pengumpulan data. Teknik pemilihan informan menggunakan purposive sampling, dimana kriteria informan telah ditetapkan sebelumnya. Adapun luaran dari penelitian ini berupa publikasi pada jurnal ilmiah nasional terakreditasi dan luaran tambahan pada jurnal ilmiah nasional tidak terakreditasi

Between Fear and Trust: Factors Influencing Older Adults' Evaluation of Socially Assistive Robots

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) are expected to support autonomy, aging in place, and wellbeing in later life. For successful assimilation, it is necessary to understand factors affecting older adults Quality Evaluations (QEs) of SARs, including the pragmatic and hedonic evaluations and overall attractiveness. Previous studies showed that trust in robots significantly enhances QE, while technophobia considerably decreases it. The current study aimed to examine the relative impact of these two factors on older persons QE of SARs. The study was based on an online survey of 384 individuals aged 65 and above. Respondents were presented with a video of a robotic system for physical and cognitive training and filled out a questionnaire relating to that system. The results indicated a positive association between trust and QE and a negative association between technophobia and QE. A simultaneous exploration demonstrated that the relative impact of technophobia is significantly more substantial than that of trust. In addition, the pragmatic qualities of the robot were found to be more crucial to its QE than the social aspects of use. The findings suggest that implementing robotics technology in later life strongly depends on reducing older adults technophobia regarding the convenience of using SARs and highlight the importance of simultaneous explorations of facilitators and inhibitors

Psychological Implications of Modern Technologies: “Technofobia” versus “Technophilia”

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to present the psychological consequences, favourable or not, of the modern technologies. Modern technologies, also known as “new technology”, caused the appearance of the psychological ambivalence, because, modern technologies, generate, in the same measure, comfort and disasters. At the psycho-dynamic level, this ambivalence is expressed by technophilia (attraction to technology) and technophobia (rejection of technology). Technophilia and technophobia are the two extremes of the relationship between technology and the human being, but especially, between technology and societ

IT-Supported Management of Mass Casualty Incidents: The e-Triage Project

Emergencies arise out of disasters and are characterized by limited resources in terms of medical personnel and infrastructure, underlining the importance of mobilizing regional, supra-regional and/or international help to the affected regions. Effective deployment of this help is crucial, but only possible if a common operational picture among authorities, coordination centers, and staff working in the field is developed as quickly as possible. Since mass casualty incidents (MCIs) normally overwhelm the regularly available rescue resources (rescue personnel, transport vehicles, hospital capacity, etc.), a particularly effective crisis management has to be applied. In general, for co-ordination centers it is a challenge to get an immediate and accurate situation overview (i.e. number of victims, injury categories and their location). Indeed, triage and registration performed at different places by different teams maintaining different lists are indubitably an error-prone approach. Furthermore, it can happen that all later attempts to track the way of single patient, their attendants and transport vehicles are not very successful, although this could be of key interest in scenarios with nuclear, biological or chemical hazards. Within the e-Triage project, which is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, an integrated concept for electronic registration of affected persons is under development

THE OLDER ADULTS AND SENSE OF SMARTPHONE: ONE STEP TOWARDS TECHNOPHOBIA

The development of technology, especially smartphones, is increasing rapidly. This was responded to differently by various characteristics of the community, especially the older adults. With human limitations in the use of technology capable of producing technophobia. This study will explain what seniors include technophobia sufferers with these limitations and what characteristics and factors can surround them. This study uses qualitative research methods with a phenomenological approach. The subjects of this study were those who did not use a smartphone. Data analysis by determining what limits and who is investigated, data collection and phenomenological analysis of data. The results of this study concluded that the subject cannot be said to be a sufferer of technophobia. Characteristics that appear elderly in this study is the unwillingness to think of smartphones, incapable of thought, avoiding the use and discussion of the smartphone and the absence of intensive learning efforts. Affective dimensions that appear to be a differentiator in technophobia, namely the absence of envy and the attitude of accepting oneself (surrender). This characteristic leads the subject to the loss of the sense of smartphone. Factors that arise from the loss of sense of smartphone are sensing factors, cognitive abilities, family education and the complexity of smartphone tools.Keywords: Older Adults, Sense of Smartphone, Technophobi

“We Don’t Know Exactly How They Work”: Making Sense of Technophobia in 1973 Westworld, Futureworld, and Beyond Westworld

This article scrutinizes Michael Crichton’s movie Westworld (1973), its sequel Futureworld (1976), and the spin-off series Beyond Westworld (1980), as well as the critical literature that deals with them. I examine whether Crichton’s movie, its sequel, and the 1980s series contain and convey a consistent technophobic message according to the definition of “technophobia” advanced in Daniel Dinello’s 2005 monograph. I advance a proposal to develop further the concept of technophobia in order to offer a more satisfactory and unified interpretation of the narratives at stake. I connect technophobia and what I call de-theologized, epistemic hubris: the conclusion is that fearing technology is philosophically meaningful if one realizes that the limitations of technology are the consequence of its creation and usage on behalf of epistemically limited humanity (or artificial minds)

Technology as a scapegoat

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