TY - GEN
T1 - Gerontechnology : the importance of user participation in ICT development for older adults
AU - Bjering, Heidi
AU - Curry, Joanne
AU - Maeder, Anthony
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - With the ageing of our society and the increasing pressure on health and aged care services, the need for technological solutions to help older people stay in their own home for as long as possible is becoming increasingly important. To create information and communications technology (ICT) that will fit with the way older people live their lives and wish to use technology, necessitates their involvement in the design and development process. This paper will highlight some of the issues when designing for and with older people, and highlights the need for more research on how to involve older persons as stakeholders when designing technology for their use, as well as the need for easily accessible guidelines for how to do this.
AB - With the ageing of our society and the increasing pressure on health and aged care services, the need for technological solutions to help older people stay in their own home for as long as possible is becoming increasingly important. To create information and communications technology (ICT) that will fit with the way older people live their lives and wish to use technology, necessitates their involvement in the design and development process. This paper will highlight some of the issues when designing for and with older people, and highlights the need for more research on how to involve older persons as stakeholders when designing technology for their use, as well as the need for easily accessible guidelines for how to do this.
KW - Internet and older people
KW - gerontechnology
KW - information technology
KW - older people
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:29317
UR - https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2014about
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-427-5-7
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-427-5-7
M3 - Conference Paper
C2 - 25087520
SN - 9781614994268
SP - 7
EP - 12
BT - Investing in E-Health: People, Knowledge and Technology for a Healthy Future: Selected Papers from the 22nd Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2014), 11-14 August 2014, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
PB - IOS Press
T2 - Australian National Health Informatics Conference
Y2 - 11 August 2014
ER -