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Designing Connected Resources for Older People

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this pictorial, we illustrate steps towards a novel approach that situates connected technologies for older people as resources. In contrast to mainstream approaches in gerontechnology that consider elderly as frail and passive, we aim to complement older people's vital competences by designing technologies that can be used in less prescriptive, and broader ways. The pictorial describes our design process in which resourceful strategies were identified through thing ethnography and used as inspiration to create a series of new connected objects conceived as resources.

Source: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

DOI: 10.1145/3196709.3196808

Authors: Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, Lenneke Kuijer

Institutions: Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Technology Use by Older Adults

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2807747495

FWCI: 6.34

Cites: 19

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10