Engaging older people using participatory design

Stephen Lindsay; Guy Peter Schofield; Patrick Olivier; Daniel Jackson

Engaging older people using participatory design

Stephen Lindsay, Guy Peter Schofield, Patrick Olivier, Daniel Jackson

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

he use of digital technologies is increasingly proposed in health and social care to address the aging population phenomenon but, in practice, the designers of these technologies are ill equipped to design for older people. We suggest participatory design as an approach to improving the quality of design for older people but, based on previous work and our own experiences, identify four central issues that participatory design approaches need to address. We describe an approach to early engagement in design with older ...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pages	1199
Number of pages	1208
Volume	ACM
Edition	2012
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2012

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