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From Guinea Pigs to Design Partners: Working with Older People in ICT Design

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Designing Inclusive Systems

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Governments worldwide are recognising the reality and challenges of aging societies. Aging is often accompanied by increased incidence of impairments in the physio-motor, sensory and cognitive domains, as well as health problems, reduced socialisation, poorer finances, reduced sense of purpose and sometimes marginalisation from society. Technology can be very beneficial for older people but is too often problematical, sometimes creating digital exclusion

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  1. Human Factors Research Group, ITRC Building, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

    R. Edlin-White, S. Cobb & A. Floyde

  2. Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,  UK

    S. Lewthwaite

  3. University of Nottingham Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    J. Wang & J. Riedel

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Edlin-White, R., Cobb, S., Floyde, A., Lewthwaite, S., Wang, J., Riedel, J. (2012). From Guinea Pigs to Design Partners: Working with Older People in ICT Design. In: Langdon, P., Clarkson, J., Robinson, P., Lazar, J., Heylighen, A. (eds) Designing Inclusive Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2867-0_16

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