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Social companion robots are getting more attention to assist elderly people to stay independent at home and to decrease their social isolation. When developing solutions, one remaining challenge is to design the right applications that are usable by elderly people. For this purpose, co-creation methodologies involving multiple stakeholders and a multidisciplinary researcher team (e.g., elderly people, medical professionals, and computer scientists such as roboticists or IoT engineers) are designed within the ACCRA (Agile Co-Creation of Robots for Ageing) project. This paper will address this research question: How can Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) technology and co-creation methodologies help to design emotional-based robotic applications? This is supported by the ACCRA project that develops advanced social robots to support active and healthy ageing, co-created by various stakeholders such as ageing people and physicians. We demonstra this with three robots, Buddy, ASTRO, and RoboHon, used for daily life, mobility, and conversation. The three robots understand and convey emotions in real-time using the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence technologies (e.g., knowledge-based reasoning). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper examines the relationship between "chronological age" and the individual difference variables: "Need for cognition" (NFC) and "Need for emotion" (NFE). More specifically, this study investigates the influence of these individual difference variables on elderly responses towards advertising. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on a sample of 600 individuals. 300 elderly aged between 60 and 75 years old (average age: 67.67 years old), recruited from institutions and third age universities in Paris and 300 young adults, aged between 20 and 35 years old (average age: 25.14 years old) from academic institutions in Paris. Findings: The findings show that NFC and NFE have different levels depending on age. Indeed, NFC is lower among older than younger individuals, and NFE is higher among older than younger individuals. Moreover, different levels in NFC and NFE may affect responses to ads. Thus, a high NFC can elicit more favorable cognitive responses to ads and a high NFE triggers more favorable affective responses. Research limitations/implications: The study investigates specifically the effects of chronological age on the individual difference variables NFC and NFE; however, the influence of chronological age on these individual variables may be affected by other variables such as subjective age, level of education and physical condition. Practical implications: Given that NFC and NFE are dynamic variables that change with age and that they influence responses to advertising, it would be necessary to take them into account and to integrate them when building management persuasion models specifically targeting the elderly. Originality/value: This study focuses on the influence of individual variables (NFE and NFC) on responses to advertising, of an underexplored population: the elderly. This could help to better understand the persuasion mechanisms when it comes to targeting the elderly both outside and inside organizations, with deriving implications for change in management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than 70% of elderly people age 80 and older are experiencing problems in personal mobility. Assistive robotics can represent a concrete support providing also a support for caregivers, clinicians and nurses by reducing their burden. A total of 20 older people and 34 caregivers (formal and informal) were interviewed in Italy and the Netherlands to investigate and prioritize their needs concerning the personal mobility domains and their attitudes towards assistive robots. The data were analysed from a user point of view by means of thematic content analysis by underlying recurrent topics. The results revealed four categories of needs from the perspective of the older individuals: instrumental needs, rehabilitation needs, personal safety and indoor activities of daily life. Additionally, the results underline how personal mobility issues influence different aspects of daily life. Complementarily, three categories of caregiver needs were also distinguished: instrumental needs, rehabilitation monitoring needs and checkup needs. The highest percentage of participants showed a positive expectation towards assistive robotics. The results were clustered according to the robot abilities (i.e., motion, interaction, manipulation, decision support and perception abilities) as a list of functional and technical requirements that should be developed to address all the needs related to the personal mobility. Robotic developer teams that work in this context could take advantage of this research. Additionally, this work can be used as a basis for clinicians and nurses working in geriatric units to understand how the robots can support and enhance their work. The incidence of personal mobility limitations affects 35% of adults age 70 and older and 72% of people over 80 years of age. Assistive robots can support elderly people during daily tasks: they could promote their personal mobility acting as a supporting tool. The results of the needs analysis revealed four categories of needs from the perspective of the older individuals: instrumental needs, rehabilitation needs, personal safety, and indoor activities of daily life. Three categories of caregiver needs were also distinguished: instrumental needs, rehabilitation monitoring needs, and check-up needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The perception of negative physical contagion has been identified in the literature as a deterrent to the purchase of second-hand goods in an offline context. In view of the growth of second-hand shopping on the Internet, this article studies the effect of the salience of physical contact between the previous owner and the product in the purchase of second-hand products online. An initial experiment reveals a negative physical contagion effect on purchase intention, an effect mediated by perceived physical risk. However, many sellers of second-hand products on the Internet adopt presentation strategies aimed at emphasizing their similarity to new products. A second experiment shows that similarity with a new product reduces perceived physical risk for non-experts in the product category, while it decreases perceived quality for experts. In both experiments, the effect of disgust, which plays an important role in physical sales channels, is found to be not significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the effects of services proposed by private developers on buyers' psychological attitudes in the decision-making process for off-plan purchases. We propose a new typology of services based on perceived value. We conducted a field experiment with real buyers who purchased an off-plan dwelling in France, and we measured the causal effects on developer reputation of four service intensity indexes that offer 'visualisation', 'customisation', 'value enhancement' and 'interaction' services. The results confirm the homebuyer-based typology of services and highlight the mediating roles of two types of attitudes, satisfaction with and trust in the developer, to explain the influence on developer reputation. Services designed to improve the perception of the quality of the dwelling itself (visualisation and customisation benefits) are less effective, and those intended to create a favourable purchase context (value enhancement and interactional benefits) are more influential, emphasising the benevolent role expected from developers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: La perception d'une contagion physique négative a été identifiée dans la littérature comme un frein à l'achat de produits d'occasion dans un contexte hors ligne. Compte tenu du développement de l'achat d'occasion sur Internet, cet article étudie l'effet de la saillance du contact entre le propriétaire précédent et le produit sur l'achat de produits d'occasion en ligne. Une première expérimentation montre un effet de contagion physique négative sur l'intention d'achat, effet médiatisé par le risque perçu physique. Or, de nombreux acteurs de l'occasion sur Internet adoptent des stratégies de présentation visant à accentuer la similitude avec le neuf. Une deuxième expérimentation montre que la similitude avec un produit neuf permet de réduire ce risque perçu physique pour les individus non-experts de la catégorie de produits, tandis qu'elle dégrade la qualité perçue pour les experts. Dans les deux expérimentations menées, l'effet du dégoût, qui joue un rôle important dans les circuits de distribution physiques, s'avère non significatif. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While age is the variable most often used to explain household recycling behavior, research findings reveal only limited or contradictory effects. This study demonstrates the utility of several additional variables related to age in regard to explaining the effect of aging on household recycling behavior. These variables are generativity, available time, and perceived skills. By drawing on the theory of planned behavior, this paper offers a model that clarifies how age indirectly influences household recycling behavior. The model is tested on a stratified sample, and the results are analyzed through mediation tests and structural equation modeling. While aging is associated with lower levels of enthusiasm for recycling, more skills and available time allow recycling to be accomplished with increased ease. Finally, the results enable an explanation of the previous contradictory results about age effects and lead to managerial and societal recommendations on how household recycling can be effectively promoted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ageing well currently represents a major challenge for consumers and marketers, but this concept needs further investigation. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of Desired Ageing Well (DAW), which refers to the psychological, physical, social and financial objectives of ageing well. We provide a reliable and valid bifactor measurement model (general factor and specific factors) in which general DAW is accompanied by three specific factors, namely, physical DAW, social DAW and financial DAW. Together with age, DAW proves to be of value for explaining consumption in four sectors: e-health, cosmetic surgery, leisure and financial investment. The results obtained suggest that ageing well marketing should be developed to better design and promote products and services favouring successful ageing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peu investigué, le bien vieillir constitue un défi important pour le marketing. Pour y répondre, le concept de Bien Vieillir Désiré (BVD) fait référence aux objectifs psychologiques, physiques, sociaux et financiers, poursuivis dans la quête du bien vieillir. Nous en proposons un modèle de mesure bifactoriel (facteur général et facteurs spécifiques), fiable et valide dans lequel le BVD général s'accompagne de trois facteurs spécifiques, le BVD physique, le BVD social et le BVD financier. Le BVD se révèle être utile, en complément à l'âge pour expliquer la consommation dans quatre secteurs : l'e-santé, la chirurgie esthétique, les loisirs et les placements financiers. Les résultats obtenus suggèrent le développement d'un marketing du bien vieillir pour mieux concevoir et promouvoir les produits et services favorisant le bien vieillir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few academic studies have addressed the question of how teenagers respond in school social contexts to peer criticism about their choice of brand. To better determine the outlines of this societal issue and associated education marketing, these reactions are studied through the concept of coping, deployed with a combined process-style approach. Three successive quantitative surveys (n1 = 208; n2 = 200; n3 = 446) were used to highlight five specific coping strategies: justification of the purchase circumstances, revenge, denial of the problem, self-reproach and making the criticizers feel guilty. Gender, perceived controllability of the situation and brand sensitivity are the main determinants of these strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study investigated which age measures, independent or interdependent, were better for cross-cultural consumer research. Specifically, it assessed the fit between the 'actual' and 'ideal' self-concept model within the framework of self-construal theory by examining the actual and ideal self-attributed age identity across South Korea ( = 480), China ( = 207), and France ( = 338) using both independent and interdependent age identity scales. Multivariate analyses revealed differences for individuated self-schemata across the three countries for actual and ideal age self-construal, as well as for actual other-referent interdependent age self-schemata. However, the reverse occurred too: The ideal interdependent ages showed a lack of difference across the three different cultures. Overall, the results indicate that interdependent decade scales are better than independent age scales for cross-cultural consumer behavior studies. Though such scales are more complex, they are easy to translate and to administer, and simple to analyze and to interpret. Evidence also suggests that such scales are reliable and robust across disparate samples in the countries studied. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a conceptual framework based on developmental psychology, this research proposes testing an explanatory model of the trend to see oneself as younger, which is characteristic of seniors. The identification of antecedent variables of this tendency suggests a new approach to segmenting the feminine over-50 market in France. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]