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We are healthier together: designing for technology-mediated health coproductions by older adults

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Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan,

Benjamin V. Hanrahan,

Richard Wirth,

Mary Beth Rosson,

John M. CarrollAuthors Info & Claims

PervasiveHealth '17: Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 488 - 491

https://doi.org/10.1145/3154862.3154899

Published: 23 May 2017 Publication History

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Engagement in social activities and participation in community, allows people to coproduce their own health and wellbeing. This paper reports an ongoing design study that uses an email listserv to support older adults to organize and enact more coproductions together. Email is a tool that our participants are familiar with and already use. We augment their daily practices and past experience of this simple technology for promoting health coproductions. We discuss the rationale for using email as a tool, the design of the listserv, and how the older adults use the new technology.

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Knearem TWang XCarroll J(2021)Constructing Well-being Together: Older Adults Engagement in Coproduction Through VolunteeringProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech10.1145/3461564.3461586(169-178)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2021
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PervasiveHealth '17: Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2017

503 pages

ISBN:9781450363631

DOI:10.1145/3154862

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Vodafone, Data-Pop Alliance
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Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group

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Rodríguez Caro CRamos Granados YGonzales Mercado DQuezada Angeles J(2023)Participación ciudadana de adultos mayores en modernización estatal: Una revisión de la literaturaLATAM Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades10.56712/latam.v4i5.13214:5Online publication date: 7-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.56712/latam.v4i5.1321
Knearem TWang XCarroll J(2021)Constructing Well-being Together: Older Adults Engagement in Coproduction Through VolunteeringProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech10.1145/3461564.3461586(169-178)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461564.3461586

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