Engaging the disengaged: How do we design technology for digitally excluded older adults?

DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 175-178

  Coleman, Graeme W ^a   Gibson, Lorna ^a   Hanson, Vicki L ^a   Bobrowicz, Ania ^b   McKay, Alison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

design; digital economy; inclusion; older adults; technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149292888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1858171.1858202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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