Connecting communities: Designing a social media platform for older adults living in a senior village

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

Volumn 6766 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 224-233

  Tsai, Tsai Hsuan ^a   Chang, Hsien Tsung ^a   Wong, Alice May Kuen ^b   Wu, Tsung Fu ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

elderly social model; smart social platform; user interface

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE; KEY FACTORS; OLDER ADULTS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SALIENT POINTS; SENIOR USER; SMART SOCIAL PLATFORM; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MODELS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL SCIENCES; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79960307352     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21663-3_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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