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Abstract

Despite improvements in the accessibility of digital technologies and growing numbers of tools designed specifically for older adults,adoption of such tools remains low for this demographic. This workshop aims to explore the contextual factors that contribute to reduced uptake among older adults in order to understand how to design digital technologies that will be appealing to and work for them, fitting with recent calls for more holistic approaches to designing for older adults. Going beyond standard accessibility considerations, and aiming to inform design of technologies for the general population rather than the design of senior-friendly variants of such tools, we will generate a set of principles for developing tools that older adults can and will use.

Link to full proposal.

Key Dates

Position paper (Q&A form) submission: 12 February 2019
Acceptance notification: 1 March 2019
Workshop: 4 May 2019

Contact

Submissions and all enquiries should be sent to Bran Knowles, b.h.knowles1@lancaster.ac.uk.