Age matters: Bridging the generation gap through technology-mediated interaction

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4799-4802

  Harley, Dave ^a   Vetere, Frank ^b   Kurniawan, Sri H ^c   Fitzpatrick, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergenerational communication; Older users

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERNET BASED; LONG DISTANCES; MEDIATED INTERACTION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; OLDER PEOPLE; OLDER USERS; PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 70349168241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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