Never too old: Engaging retired people inventing the future with MaKey MaKey

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3913-3922

  Rogers, Yvonne ^a   Paay, Jeni ^b   Brereton, Margot ^c   Vaisutis, Kate ^c   Marsden, Gary ^d   Vetere, Frank ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Creativity; Future technology; Invention; MaKey MaKey; Retired people; Toolkits

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

CREATIVITY; FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; MAKEY MAKEY; RETIRED PEOPLE; TOOLKITS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84900387399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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