Ageing and Digital Technology: Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults

✍ Scribed by Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people. It offers an innovative and comprehensive overview, not only of the rapidly developing suite of current digital technologies and platforms, but also of perennial theoretical, methodological and ethical issues. As such, it offers support for researchers and professionals who are seeking to understand and/or promote technology use among older adults. The contributions presented here offer theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding age-based digital inequalities, participation, digital design and socio-gerontechnology. They include ethical and practical reflections on the design and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people, as well as guidelines for ethical, participatory, professional and cross-disciplinary research and practice. In addition, they feature state-of-the-art, international empirical research on communication technologies, games, assistive technology and social media. As the first truly multidisciplinary book on technology use among ageing demographics, and intended for students, researchers, applied researchers, practitioners and professionals in a variety of fields, it will provide these readers with insights, guidelines and paradigms for practice that transcend specific technologies, and lay the groundwork for future research and new directions in innovation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Ageing and Emerging Digital Technologies (Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
The Lady with the Roses and Other Invisible Users: Revisiting Unused Data on Nursing Home Residents in Living Labs (Anne Marie Kanstrup, Ann Bygholm)....Pages 17-33
Aging in the Digital Age: Conceptualizing Technology Adoption and Digital Inequalities (Jessica Francis, Christopher Ball, Travis Kadylak, Shelia R. Cotten)....Pages 35-49
Technology and Ageing—Theoretical Propositions from Science and Technology Studies (STS) (Alexander Peine)....Pages 51-64
Building Social Connections: A Framework for Enriching Older Adults’ Social Connectedness Through Information and Communication Technologies (Jenny Waycott, Frank Vetere, Elizabeth Ozanne)....Pages 65-82
Digital Games and Older People from a Theoretical and Conceptual Perspective: A Critical Literature Review (Sergio Sayago, Andrea Rosales, Valeria Righi, Susan M. Ferreira, Graeme W. Coleman, Josep Blat)....Pages 83-96
Front Matter ....Pages 97-97
Usability Is Ageless: Conducting Usability Tests with Older Adults (Rachel Franz, Barbara Barbosa Neves)....Pages 99-114
Vignethnographies: A Method for Fast, Focused and Visual Exploration (Edgar Gómez Cruz, Jessica Noske-Turner, Jolynna Sinanan)....Pages 115-131
Using Netnography to Research Older Adults’ Online Communities (Loredana Ivan)....Pages 133-150
Older Adults as Co-researchers for Built Environments: Virtual Reality as a Means of Engagement (Stephanie Liddicoat, Clare Newton)....Pages 151-169
Front Matter ....Pages 171-171
Designing Technologies with Older Adults: Ethical Tensions and Opportunities (Jenny Waycott, John Vines)....Pages 173-187
Field Studies of Interactive Technologies for Marginalized Users: A Canadian Ethics Policy Perspective (Cosmin Munteanu, Stephanie Sadownik)....Pages 189-211
Working with Assistive Technologies and People Living with Dementia (Grant Gibson, Katie Brittain, Louise Robinson)....Pages 213-227
Front Matter ....Pages 229-229
The Technology Explorers: Partnering with Older Adults to Engage with Virtual Reality and Virtual Avatars (Steven Baker, Jenny Waycott, Frank Vetere, Thuong Hoang)....Pages 231-246
Exergames and Neuropsychological Functions in Older Adults: An Experimental Approach (Adriano Pasqualotti, Fausto Amaro, Barbara Barbosa Neves)....Pages 247-265
Robot-Assisted Gait Training for Older Adults: NILTWAMOR and Lucia (Kazuhiko Terashima, Ryo Saegusa)....Pages 267-283
Technologies for Promoting Social Participation in Later Life (Marcos Baez, Radoslaw Nielek, Fabio Casati, Adam Wierzbicki)....Pages 285-306
Design of Social Network Services for and with Older Adults (Carlos Duarte, José Coelho)....Pages 307-326
Back Matter ....Pages 327-335

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Culture and Technology; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Social Anthropology; Media Design; Digital/New Media