The building bridges project: Involving older adults in the design of a communication technology to support peer-to-peer social engagement

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5889 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 111-134

  Wherton, Joseph ^a   Prendergast, David ^b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Intel Ireland Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Loneliness; Social isolation; User centered design; Voice over internet protocol (VoIP)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LONELINESS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; OLD AGE; OLDER ADULTS; PEER TO PEER; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER-CENTERED DESIGN PROCESS; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650633639     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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