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Towards Designing for (Dis)Trust in Technologies for Aging

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Pith's one-line read The paper argues that older adults' distrust in technology is a three-part phenomenon: it emerges when the storage and movement of information become illegible, it shifts over time through experience and breakdowns, and it acts as…

desk verdict An honest, well-scoped thematic review whose three-theme synthesis is useful; the main caveat is search-strategy blind spots, but the paper's own limitations mostly cover them. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.02784 v1 pith:X5T5JPPU submitted 2026-08-03 cs.HC

classification cs.HC
keywords olderadultsdistrusttrusttechnologyacceptanceagingmateriallegibilityboundaryworkhuman-computerinteraction
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

Drawing on 59 empirical studies that report first-hand accounts from older adults, this paper tries to establish what older adults' distrust in technology actually is, rather than treating it as a barrier to remove. It claims distrust is constituted in three ways: it emerges when the material arrangements of a digital system become illegible, so people cannot tell where information is stored or how it moves; it is built and reshaped over time through prior experience, breakdowns, and changing circumstances; and it acts as boundary work that limits technology's reach into autonomy, relationships, and everyday life. If this is right, designing for trust means making the movement and persistence of information perceptible, supporting trust across phases of use, and respecting the boundaries older adults draw, rather than relying on one-time transparency fixes. The contribution is a reframing of distrust as a meaningful, dynamic stance that deserves design attention on its own terms.

What carries the argument

The central analytic machinery is a three-theme reading of (dis)trust: material legibility, meaning whether users can perceive where information is stored, how it flows, and what actions will do; temporal constitution, meaning trust is built and reshaped over time with an asymmetry between positive continuity and negative spillover; and boundary work, meaning distrust is a way of setting limits on technology's reach. These themes are generated through reflexive thematic analysis of participant quotes and author-reported accounts from the reviewed studies. They carry the argument by linking the 59 studies' findings to design levers: perceptible data movement, phase-sensitive trust support, and respect for negotiable trust boundaries.

What would settle it

A field experiment comparing older adults' use and trust of a smart-home device with a continuously visible data-flow indicator against an identical device without the indicator would test the material-legibility claim; if trust and reliance are the same across conditions, the central mechanism fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Through a reflexive thematic analysis of empirical findings from 59 studies published between 2008 and 2025, the paper identifies three related dynamics in older adults' accounts of (dis)trust. First, distrust emerges when the material arrangements of information become illegible: participants cannot determine where their data is stored, cannot trace its movement beyond the device or home, or cannot anticipate the outcome of an action such as clicking a link or scanning a QR code. Second, trust is temporally constituted and fluid: positive experience builds trust mainly within a familiar brand or technology type, while negative experience is carried across contexts, and trust can strengthen, weaken, or be repaired through sustained use, breakdown, and changing life circumstances. Third, distrust operates as boundary work through which older adults limit technology's reach into their autonomy, relationships, values, and everyday lives. The paper also argues that how distrust is produced relates to how it shows up in use: illegibility tends to produce selective reliance, while boundary-work distrust tends to produce non-use, and both patterns shift over time.

Load-bearing premise

The review's picture of older adults' distrust rests on the assumption that searching two databases for the words trust, distrust, and skeptic captured the full range of relevant studies, so work framed around refusal, privacy, or non-Western contexts could change the themes if it was missed.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Trust-support mechanisms should be matched to the phase of use: initial introduction, early experimentation, routine use, after failure, and after broader harms call for different forms of support.
  • Trust-building cannot focus on the current system alone because older users arrive with trust histories, including distrust carried from earlier devices or workplace technologies.
  • Design should make the movement and persistence of information perceptible through physical indicators, dashboards, or hardware shutters, rather than relying only on text-based explanations.
  • Distrust produced by opaque material practices tends to result in selective use, whereas distrust as boundary work tends to result in non-use, so distrust does not reliably predict abandonment.
  • Older adults' negotiable trust boundaries, such as keeping a physical backup alongside a digital reminder, should be treated as design material rather than obstacles to override.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper's asymmetry claim implies that trust support may need to operate across a person's whole technology history rather than within a single product; this is a testable extension beyond the paper.
  • If material legibility is the active mechanism, ambient and physical displays of data flow could be evaluated as a general trust-support pattern for older adults, not only for smart-home privacy.
  • Treating distrust as boundary work suggests that some non-use is a legitimate design outcome; future work could map which system aspects are acceptable, negotiable, or non-negotiable for specific technologies and care networks.
  • The temporal fluidity finding points to longitudinal field studies that track the same older adults' trust before adoption, after breakdown, and after repair to test whether phase-sensitive design directions hold over months or years.
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Summary. The authors conduct a focused, interpretivist review of 59 empirical studies in which older adults discussed trust, distrust, or skepticism toward technology. From a reflexive thematic analysis of these papers, they identify three dynamics through which (dis)trust is constituted: (1) distrust emerging when the material arrangements of information systems become illegible (e.g., when older adults cannot tell where data is stored, how it travels, or what actions it triggers); (2) trust and distrust as temporally constituted and fluid, built through prior experience, breakdowns, and shifts over time; and (3) distrust as boundary work through which older adults limit technology's reach into their autonomy, relationships, and everyday life. They translate these into design directions: supporting trust across different phases of use, making information movement and persistence perceptible, and respecting negotiable trust boundaries. The paper transparently describes its search strategy, inclusion criteria, codebook, theme-to-code mapping, and limitations, and explicitly positions itself as an interpretive account rather than a systematic review.

Significance. If accepted as an interpretive synthesis, the paper makes a useful contribution to HCI and aging research by moving beyond generic privacy, security, and usability explanations of older adults' distrust. It gives designers a more articulated vocabulary: material legibility, temporal fluidity, and boundary work. The methodological transparency is a real strength: Figure 1 shows the screening flow, Table 2 provides a full codebook with per-code paper counts, Table 3 connects codes to themes, and Table 4 includes sample analytic memos with source excerpts. The authors also deserve credit for engaging with the interpretivist tradition seriously, including positionality and explicit non-generalizability statements, and for treating participant distrust as a meaningful stance rather than a deficit to be eliminated. The design directions, while preliminary, are concrete and connected to the findings.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract; Section 5] The abstract's claim that (dis)trust 'is constituted in three key ways' and Section 5's phrasing 'we identify three distinct but related dynamics' state the taxonomy without the corpus-bounded qualification that Section 4 explicitly acknowledges (e.g., 'the corpus we analyzed may not be exhaustive,' 'search results on platforms like Google Scholar may not be reproducible'). Because the search vocabulary is limited to trust, distrust, and skeptic, studies framed through refusal, non-use, suspicion, or privacy may be underrepresented, which is directly relevant to Theme 3 (boundary work) and Theme 1 (information flow illegibility). This is a load-bearing point for the scope of the contribution. I recommend either (a) conducting a supplemental search with adjacent constructs such as refusal, non-use, reluctance, and suspicion to test whether additional themes emerge or whether the existing three saturate, or (b) explicitly qualifying the abstract and Section 5 statements as 'in our corpus, we identify three dynamics' and referencing the Section 4 limitations at the point of the claim. The latter is the minimum necessary; the former would strengthen the empirical basis for the taxonomy.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 4] 'Inline with our goal' should read 'In line with our goal.'
  2. [Section 3.1] The phrase 'recorded outside' in the voice-assistant example (paragraph on smart home devices) could be misread as 'outdoors'; consider 'recorded off-device' or 'recorded and transmitted beyond the home' for clarity.
  3. [Appendix Table 1] Table 1's column headers 'Papers' and 'Domain' are clear, but within Panel A, 'Papers' actually counts studies; consider renaming to 'Studies' for consistency with Section 2's '59 empirical studies' phrasing.
  4. [Section 3.3; Appendix Table 3] The mapping of 'Fixed beliefs and instinctual distrust' to Theme 3 (Distrust as Boundary Setting) is not self-explanatory; a sentence in Section 3.3 explaining that fixed beliefs can function as boundary work (e.g., 'the old ways we know are fine') would tighten the theme-code connection.

Circularity Check

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No circularity found: the review's three themes are interpretive syntheses of an external 59-paper corpus, and the paper's self-citations are not load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper makes no derivation that reduces by construction to its own inputs. The corpus was found by searching trust, distrust, and skeptic terms, but the inclusion criteria do not force the specific tripartite structure (material illegibility, temporal constitution, boundary work); those themes are the product of reflexive thematic analysis of participants' quotes and author-reported findings across 59 studies. The materiality lens is openly imported from Dourish [22], an external source, and applied to interpret the quotes rather than presented as an emergent result that defines the lens. The authors' own prior papers appear in the corpus ([70], [71], [89]), but each theme is also supported by multiple independent studies (e.g., [52] and [75] for material illegibility; [49] and [100] for temporality; [21], [57], and [90] for boundary work), so the self-citations are not load-bearing and no self-citation chain forces a conclusion. The limitations section explicitly states that the corpus 'may not be exhaustive,' that Google Scholar results 'may not be reproducible,' and that findings are 'not intended to produce generalizable results,' which addresses representativeness concerns without introducing circularity. Concerns about search-term or ranking bias are validity limitations, not circular dependencies.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper's central claim is a qualitative interpretation; it carries no fitted parameters or invented entities. It relies on the faithfulness of the reviewed studies, the completeness of the keyword-based search, and the applicability of the Dourish materiality lens. The authors explicitly acknowledge the search and generalizability limitations.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The 59 reviewed studies provide faithful first-hand accounts of older adults' trust and distrust.
    The analysis codes participants' quotes and author-reported accounts as empirical evidence; if the published accounts are unrepresentative or misreported, the themes may not hold. Stated in Section 2 and Limitations.
  • domain assumption The search strategy (ACM DL and Google Scholar with trust/distrust/skeptic keywords) captures the relevant corpus.
    The authors scoped out adjacent terms like refusal to avoid shifting focus, which may exclude relevant work; acknowledged in Section 2 and Section 4.
  • domain assumption Dourish's materiality framework is an appropriate lens for interpreting trust in technology.
    Used in Section 3.1 to reframe privacy and security concerns as material illegibility; the paper does not critically compare alternative theoretical lenses.
  • domain assumption Reflexive thematic analysis is an appropriate method for producing an interpretive account.
    The paper follows Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis and adopts an interpretivist epistemological stance; this is a methodological choice rather than a mathematical axiom.

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Across cohorts of older adults and generations of technology, (dis)trust has continued to shape the acceptance of technologies for aging. Yet, we still know little about if or how to design for older adults' distrust in technology. Towards this, we reviewed empirical studies in which older adults discussed trust and distrust in relation to technology. Our analysis shows that (dis)trust is constituted in three key ways: emerges when material arrangements of digital systems become illegible, such as when older adults cannot determine where information is stored or trace its movement; is temporally constituted and fluid, building and shifting through prior experience and breakdowns, and at times distrust can operate as boundary work through which individuals limit technology's reach into their autonomy, relationships, and everyday lives. Our work yields design directions for supporting trust across different phases of technology use and by designing systems that make the movement and persistence of information more perceptible.

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Figure 1. Overview of the paper selection and analysis process, from 970 unique records to the final corpus of 59 empirical [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_1.png] view at source ↗

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