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Sourced from the abstract and recommendations and stated research gap and stated challenges of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2022 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 33 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Online experimentation and sampling in cognitive aging research. (2022) · Psychology and Aging · cited 33× · doi

  However, there are many open questions about the representativeness of older adults on online data collection platforms, and issues surrounding data quality, selection effects, and other biasing characteristics, which must be carefully handled in cognitive aging studies which recruit young and older adult participants online.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: older online there open questions representativeness adults collection platforms issues surrounding quality selection effects biasing
• From Digital Inclusion to Behavioral Loss of Control: A Study on Age-Friendly Experience Design for the Dilemma of Short Video Platform Addiction Among Older Adults (2026) · Global Humanities and Social Sciences · doi

  “content accessibility” but also “information mechanisms in health governance. discernibility.” On the one hand, platforms should establish First, content source identification should be more moderate recommendation rules in the elderly strengthened through a clearer, unified, and mode: instead of taking “maximizing viewing understandable identification system. For high-risk duration” as the sole sorting criterion, dimensions information involving health, finance, policies, and such as content diversity, emotional balance, and risk elderly care, official certification, professional sensitivity should be appropriately introduced to qualifications, and platform verification status should restrict the continuous push of highly stimulating, be highlighted in the elderly mode, and their inciting, and consumption-inducing content (Eliseo et authority clearly indicated through concise and al., 2020). On the other hand, the interpretability of intuitive visual methods. Second, risk early warning recommendation logic should be improved, with design in key scenarios should be enhanced, with concise explanations of “why this is recommended to more direct prompts and prominent interface me” added at appropriate locations, and users language used for content such as live-stream allowed to select preference adjustment options such shopping, external link jumps, preferential as “see less of this content,” “reduce shopping live promotions, course payments, and health product streams,” and “lower emotional content recommendations to remind users of marketing recommendations” through simplified operations. attributes and potential risks (Martins et al., 2021). The key to age-friendly algorithms is not to create a Third, decision-support functions should be added, dedicated content pool that is easier for older adults such as auxiliary entries for “check source,” “content to immerse in, but to establish a recommendation verified or not,” and “help me judge,” to help older relationship that balances companionship value, users quickly obtain secondary verification support information quality, and behavioral health. when facing difficulties in judgment. 5.5 Improve collaborative care experience by The core of information discernible design is extending supportive systems not to make decisions for older adults, but to enhance Short video platform addiction among older 145 Journal of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 7 Iss. 2 2026 adults does not entirely occur within the screen; it is to digital well-being. Especially under the platform also closely related to emotional gaps, insufficient logic centered on retention and conversion, older intergenerational communication, and limited social adults, due to their perceptual and cognitive participation in real life.

  generalrecommendationsevidence 5/5
  Keywords: content older information health emotional adults recommendation elderly risk platform users hand establish source identification
• From Digital Inclusion to Behavioral Loss of Control: A Study on Age-Friendly Experience Design for the Dilemma of Short Video Platform Addiction Among Older Adults (2026) · Global Humanities and Social Sciences · doi

  to remind users of marketing recommendations” through simplified operations. attributes and potential risks (Martins et al., 2021). The key to age-friendly algorithms is not to create a Third, decision-support functions should be added, dedicated content pool that is easier for older adults such as auxiliary entries for “check source,” “content to immerse in, but to establish a recommendation verified or not,” and “help me judge,” to help older relationship that balances companionship value, users quickly obtain secondary verification support information quality, and behavioral health. when facing difficulties in judgment. 5.5 Improve collaborative care experience by The core of information discernible design is extending supportive systems not to make decisions for older adults, but to enhance Short video platform addiction among older 145 Journal of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 7 Iss. 2 2026 adults does not entirely occur within the screen; it is to digital well-being. Especially under the platform also closely related to emotional gaps, insufficient logic centered on retention and conversion, older intergenerational communication, and limited social adults, due to their perceptual and cognitive participation in real life. Therefore, relying solely on characteristics, emotional compensation needs, and interface reminders and usage restrictions is limited media literacy, are more susceptible to insufficient to fundamentally alleviate the immersion immersive interactions, continuous recommendations, dilemma. Age-friendly experience design should also and commercial incentive mechanisms, thus sliding expand from single product design to supportive from “able to use” and “frequent use” to service design, forming a digital usage support “uncontrollable use.” system with more care attributes by connecting From a design science perspective, this paper family, community, and platform resources. summarizes the addiction dilemma of older adults on At the family level, with the consent of older short video platforms into four main manifestations: users, platforms can embed authorized assistance easy access but difficult exit, excessive immersion, functions such as night rest mode settings, abnormal insufficient discernment, and feedback dependence. consumption reminders, and high-risk content It argues that behind these manifestations lie both prompts, based on the principle of “assistance rather individual-level changes in abilities and emotional than monitoring.” At the relational level, platforms needs, as well as platform-level inductive can design more content and task mechanisms mechanisms and biased age-friendly design. Current conducive to intergenerational interaction, such as age-friendly transformations of digital products still co-viewing, co-learning, and co-sharing functions, mainly focus on usability optimization at the access turning isolated immersion into opportunities for real level, with insufficient attention to comprehensibility, communication (Gradiški et al., 2023). Meanwhile, at controllability, discernibility, and exitability during a broader service level, platforms should also link usage, leading “convenience” to become a with community organizations, elderly education prerequisite for addiction in some scenarios. institutions, and grassroots service stations to provide Therefore, age-friendly design of short video older adults with support such as media literacy platforms for older users should further shift from improvement, risk identification education, and “access-friendly” to “moderation-friendly, digital behavior counseling.

  generalrecommendationsevidence 5/5
  Keywords: friendly older design adults level platforms users support content platform digital insufficient functions short video
• Beyond the digital divide: exploring older adults’ experiences of digital inclusion and socialisation (2026) · Education and Information Technologies · doi

  The existing literature adopts a deficit-based perspective, overlooking the heterogeneous, multidimensional nature of older adults' digital engagement. There is limited empirical work showing how cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions intersect in day-to-day practices and across different stages of later life. The study seeks to address this gap by exploring older adults' experiences of digital inclusion and socialisation through the Digital Maturity framework.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: existing literature adopts deficit-based perspective overlooking heterogeneous multidimensional
• Beyond the digital divide: exploring older adults’ experiences of digital inclusion and socialisation (2026) · Education and Information Technologies · doi

  The study identifies the challenge of older adults' limited digital skills and access to digital technologies. It also highlights the challenge of social isolation and the need for digital platforms to sustain social connectivity in later life. The study notes the challenge of adopting a deficit-based perspective, which overlooks the heterogeneous, multidimensional nature of older adults' digital engagement.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: study identifies challenge older adults limited digital skills

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