Considerations for technology that support physical activity by older adults

ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-40

  Fan, Chloe ^a   Forlizzi, Jodi ^a   Dey, Anind ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Older adults; Physical activity; Technology interventions

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; BARRIERS; OLDER ADULTS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84869842545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2384916.2384923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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