Creative personal projects of the elderly as active engagements with interactive media technology

C and C 2011 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-184

  Kankainen, Anu ^a   Lehtinen, Vilma ^a  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Everyday Creativity.; Interactive Media Technology Design; Media Use; Personal Projects; Seniors; User Experience

Indexed keywords

EVERYDAY CREATIVITY; INTERACTIVE MEDIA; MEDIA USE; PERSONAL PROJECTS; SENIORS; USER EXPERIENCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84923646055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2069618.2069648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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