Designing computer technologies with older people
A. Dickinson, G. Dewsbury
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AbstractThere is a growing recognition that gerontechnology must be about more than usability and technical reliability, it is also about addressing and fulfilling wishes and desires; fitting in to people's lives and according, as far as possible, to their expectations. To create appropriate technologies that will be acceptable and appropriate demands a shift of emphasis from the technology to the people, from analyses of functional decline to more holistic views of ageing as personal and life experience. Most importantly, it demands innovative approaches to gerontechnology: a person-centred approach in which researchers form partnerships with older adults.Keywords: person-centred design; qualitative research; daily life support
A. Dickinson, G. Dewsbury (2006). Designing computer technologies with older people. Gerontechnology, 5(1), 1-3
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2006.05.01.001.00