Designing social networking sites for older adults

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 186-194

  Gibson, Lorna ^a   Moncur, Wendy ^b   Forbes, Paula ^a   Arnott, John ^a   Martin, Christopher ^a   Bhachu, Amritpal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Older adults; Personal social networks; Privacy; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DATA PRIVACY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEWS; FOCUS GROUPS; INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT; OLDER ADULTS; OLDER USERS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85042826111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2010.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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