Design Challenges for Reconnecting in Later Life: A Qualitative Study
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| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | contribución de congreso |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2018 |
| Descripción: | Friendships and social interactions are renown contributors to wellbeing. As such, keeping a healthy amount of relationships becomes very important as people age and the size of their social network tends to decrease. In this paper, we take a step back and explore reconnection —find out about or re-contact old friends, an emerging topic due to the increased use of computer-mediated technology by older adults to maintain friendships and form new ones. We report on our findings from semi-structured interviews with 28 individuals from Costa Rica and Poland. The interviews aimed to explore whether there is a wish to reconnect, and the challenges encountered by older adults to reconnect. We contribute with design considerations for tools allowing older adults to reconnect, discussing opportunities for technology |
| País: | Kérwá |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/76571 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03249 https://hdl.handle.net/10669/76571 |
| Palabra clave: | Reconnection Older adults Social networks Design challenges Qualitative study |