Past experiences, current practices and future design. Ethnographic study of aging adults' everyday ICT practices - And how it could benefit public ubiquitous computing design.

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-123

  Suopajärvi, Tiina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human (non)human boundary making; Public ubiquitous computing design; Reflexive ethnography; Socio cultural aging; Temporalities

Indexed keywords

DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; HUMAN-(NON)HUMAN BOUNDARY-MAKING; INFORMATION SOCIETY; POSITIVE EXPERIENCES; REFLEXIVE ETHNOGRAPHY; SOCIO MATERIALITIES; SOCIO-CULTURAL; TEMPORALITIES;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84924852003     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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