Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5784753, abstract = {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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lindley, Si\^{a}n E. and Harper, Richard and Sellen, Abigail}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {5784753}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518962}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518962}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518962}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {attitude, communications, email, older-adults, search-a008, website}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {1693--1702}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 16:15:15}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518962}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5784753 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5784753 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. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1702 TI - Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1693 KW - attitude KW - communications KW - email KW - older-adults KW - search-a008 KW - website AU - Lindley, Siân AU - Harper, Richard AU - Sellen, Abigail PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518962 ER -