Abstract
Experience ecotourism particularly could encourage active ageing groups with sensory experience, and easily help them reciprocally interact. This study invited four active aging persons and two professional tour-guiding staff to conduct walk aloud and walk through interviews in an ecological tourism destination Taiwan Nantou Sun Link Sea Forest Recreation Area suitable for the elderly's tourism according to the results of the first phase so as to further extract the problems and demands that the elderly face in ecotourism. The results show that: The factors forming the active aging groups' eco-tourism travel experience, including the external environment, physiological and psychological factors. However, to enhance the positive experience of the active aging groups' ecotourism when both physiological and environmental factors meet the conditions, external situation involvement is an important medium to enhance the elderly's satisfaction, including both emotion and story. The emotion part contains the experience of five senses, accompanying emotion and nostalgia experience; while the story part includes daily life stories, new knowledge obtaining and sharing mechanism. This study suggests that the results obtained from the above can be applied to shape the scenario design of future ecotourism field to help develop services and related technology products in order to enhance the elderly's joy and experience in ecotourism.
Highlights
Taiwan government has proposed people-oriented technology triggered intellectual life-related construction blueprints
Interactive experience design can be increased during travel to enhance the competitiveness of tourism industry [3,10, 11, 12]
In order to enable active aging group to enjoy ecotourism and profoundly experience the feelings of happy learning in travel, this study intends to develop an edutaining and interesting interactive scenario which meets the objectives of obtaining ecological knowledge and experiencing leisure
Summary
Taiwan government has proposed people-oriented technology triggered intellectual life-related construction blueprints. Properly using technologies can increase the experience and learning of ecotourism and further achieve the objective of making the active aging group forget their age due to happy learning. When technologies are integrated with active aging group’s ecotourism, people’s perceptual cognition, emotional expression, and experiences of environmental atmosphere and use of technology seem to be more important, which is the so-called scenario modeling. To enable technological products to gently assist the elderly in engaging in ecotourism, design research on scenario development and design can be conducted and provided as reference for the interactive design of future experience. In order to enable active aging group to enjoy ecotourism and profoundly experience the feelings of happy learning in travel, this study intends to develop an edutaining and interesting interactive scenario which meets the objectives of obtaining ecological knowledge and experiencing leisure. The research tools included digital recorder, paper & pen, and camera
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