Designing a touch screen communication device to support social interaction amongst older adults

Proceedings of the 2010 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, BCS-HCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 177-185

  Doyle, Julie ^a   Skrba, Zoran ^a   McDonnell, Ronan ^b   Arent, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Communication technology; Older adults; Perceived usefulness; Social connectedness; Usability; Usage

Indexed keywords

TOUCH SCREENS;

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; OLDER ADULTS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS; USABILITY; USAGE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84903596302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2010.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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