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Older-adult HCI: why should we care?

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Interactions, Volume 20, Issue 4

Pages 72 - 75

https://doi.org/10.1145/2486227.2486242

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In this forum we celebrate research that helps to successfully bring the benefits of computing technologies to children, older adults, people with disabilities, and other populations that are often ignored in the design of mass-marketed products. Juan Pablo Hourcade, Editor

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1. Human-centered computing
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DOI:10.1145/2486227

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