Overview
- Promotes a critical reflection about the research conducted so far in Human-Computer Interaction with older people
- Examines the relationship between older people and several digital technologies, such as smartphones, self-tracking and mid-air technologies, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), blogs and 3D virtual environments
- Addresses empowerment, dementia, programming acceptance, informatics life course, social interaction experience, online leisure, ageism, privacy, and stereotypes
- Discusses technology used by older adults from a cross-cultural perspective and the need to adapt research methods to them
- Introduces a new, interdisciplinary perspective on HCI research with older people, with contributions from Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, Information Design and Information Studies
Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Technologies
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Technology Use
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Research Methods and Programming Acceptance
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About this book
This book promotes a critical reflection about the research conducted so far in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with older people, whose predominant perspective focuses on decline, health, and help. It introduces a new (or different) perspective, which is grounded in interdisciplinary research on older people and digital technologies.
Key elements are to (i) address topics that include, but also go beyond decline, health, and help, such as leisure, fun, creativity and culture, to delve more deeply into the role of digital technologies in multiple facets of older people’s lives; (ii) focus on doing research and designing technologies with and for older adults, and their communities, to avoid and fight against negative social conceptions of ageing; and (iii) examine older people’s life course, strengths, interests, and values, as well as their limitations and needs, to design technologies that not only help but also empower them, extending their abilities and acquiring new knowledge, beyond technology use. This perspective aims to help us better understand, design, and evaluate older people’s interactions with digital technologies in the early 21st century.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction Research with Older People
Editors: Sergio Sayago
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06076-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06075-6Published: 04 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06076-3Published: 20 February 2019
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Aging