Design Challenges for Reconnecting in Later Life: A Qualitative Study

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون: Ibarra, Francisco, Kowalik, Grzegorz, Baez, Marcos, Nielek, Radosław, Lau Sánchez, Norma Celina, Cernuzzi, Luca, Casati, Fabio
التنسيق: contribución de congreso
تاريخ النشر:2018
الوصف: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
البلد:Kérwá
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/76571
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03249
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/76571
كلمة مفتاحية:Reconnection
Older adults
Social networks
Design challenges
Qualitative study