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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape
T2 - Attitudes of older adults
AU - Lindley, S.E.
AU - Harper, R.
AU - Sellen, A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper offers an exploration of the attitudes of older adults to keeping in touch with people who are important to them. We present findings from three focus groups with people from 55 to 81 years of age. Themes emerging from the findings suggest that older adults view the act of keeping in touch as being worthy of time and dedication, but also as being something that needs to be carefully managed within the context of daily life. Communication is seen as a means through which skill should be demonstrated and personality expressed, and is understood in a very different context to the lightweight interaction that is increasingly afforded by new technologies. The themes that emerged are used to elicit a number of design implications and to promote some illustrative design concepts for new communication devices. Copyright 2009 ACM.
AB - This paper offers an exploration of the attitudes of older adults to keeping in touch with people who are important to them. We present findings from three focus groups with people from 55 to 81 years of age. Themes emerging from the findings suggest that older adults view the act of keeping in touch as being worthy of time and dedication, but also as being something that needs to be carefully managed within the context of daily life. Communication is seen as a means through which skill should be demonstrated and personality expressed, and is understood in a very different context to the lightweight interaction that is increasingly afforded by new technologies. The themes that emerged are used to elicit a number of design implications and to promote some illustrative design concepts for new communication devices. Copyright 2009 ACM.
KW - Asymmetry
KW - Communication
KW - Connectedness
KW - Distance
KW - Effort
KW - Elder
KW - Heavyweight
KW - Intergenerational
KW - Intimacy
KW - Old age
KW - Reflection
KW - Senior
KW - Slow messaging
KW - Human computer interaction
KW - Human engineering
U2 - 10.1145/1518701.1518962
DO - 10.1145/1518701.1518962
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781605582467
SP - 1693
EP - 1702
BT - CHI '09 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -