Anna Kalma
Bernd Ploderer
ABSTRACT
The experience of ageing is of great interest to interaction design, chiefly to better meet the needs of older adults with assistive technology. Crafting is often part of this experience, yet little explored in previous research, even though it is inherently creative and social. In interaction design, making approaches are known to move the agency of creation away from designers and towards end-users. The aim of this research was to understand and characterize the aspects of crafting that are intrinsically valued by older adult crafters, with a view to understanding how new forms of technologies and socio-technical practices might be designed while honoring these values. We worked with two crafting communities over a period of two months and conducted interviews, participant observations and cultural probes, aimed at exploring the role of technology within crafting. Our results highlighted values that lead to technology being included in crafting practices: belonging, quality, and creativity. We discuss how these values open up a design space for creating technologies with older adult crafters.
- Aloha Hufana Ambe, Margot Brereton, Alessandro Soro, Laurie Buys and Paul Roe. 2019. The Adventures of Older Authors: Exploring Futures through Co-Design Fictions. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019). ACM, New York, NY, USA. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300588Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Aloha Hufana Ambe, Margot Brereton, Alessandro Soro, Min Zhen Chai, Laurie Buys and Paul Roe. 2019. Older People Inventing Their Personal Internet of Things with the Iot Un-Kit Experience. In Proceedings of 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 322, 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/DOI:https://doi-org.ezp01.library.qut.edu.au/10.1145/3290605.3300552Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Cindy Lin, Silvia Lindtner and Austin Toombs. 2017. Hci's Making Agendas. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction 11, 3, 126-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000066Google Scholar
- Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell and Austin Toombs. 2014. "Now That's Definitely a Proper Hack": Self-Made Tools in Hackerspaces. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 473–476, 473-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557221Google ScholarDigital Library
- Danah Boyd. Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life, 2008, 1–26.Google Scholar
- Margot Brereton. 2013. Habituated Objects: Everyday Tangibles That Foster the Independent Living of an Elderly Woman. interactions 20, 4, 20-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2486227.2486233Google Scholar
- Margot Brereton, Min Zhen Chai, Alessandro Soro, Aloha Hufana Ambe, Daniel Johnson, Peta Wyeth, Paul Roe and Yvonne Rogers. 2017. Make and Connect: Enabling People to Connect through Their Things. In Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. ACM, 3156182, 612-616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3152771.3156182Google ScholarDigital Library
- Margot Brereton, Alessandro Soro, Kate Vaisutis and Paul Roe. 2015. The Messaging Kettle: Prototyping Connection over a Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents. In Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2702462, 713-716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702462Google ScholarDigital Library
- Leah Buechley and Hannah Perner-Wilson. 2012. Crafting Technology: Reimagining the Processes, Materials, and Cultures of Electronics. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 19, 3, 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2362364.2362369Google ScholarDigital Library
- Tara Capel and Dhaval Vyas. 2017. Exploring the Making Activities of Women in Crisis Situations. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems. ACM, 3079153, 238-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079153Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kayla Carucci and Kentaro Toyama. 2019. Making Well-Being: Exploring the Role of Makerspaces in Long Term Care Facilities. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Paper 469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300699Google ScholarDigital Library
- Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun. 2016. Thematic Analysis. The Journal of Positive Psychology 12, 3, 297-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1262613Google ScholarCross Ref
- Maitraye Das, Katya Borgos-Rodriguez and Anne Marie Piper. 2020. Weaving by Touch: A Case Analysis of Accessible Making. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376477Google ScholarDigital Library
- Judith Davey and Kathy Glasgow. 2006. Positive Ageing: A Critical Analysis. Policy Quarterly 2, 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/pq.v2i4.4209Google ScholarCross Ref
- Kristin N. Dew and Daniela K. Rosner. 2018. Lessons from the Woodshop: Cultivating Design with Living Materials. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 3174159, 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174159Google Scholar
- R. E. Docking and J. Stock. 2017. International Handbook of Positive Aging. Taylor and Francis,Google Scholar
- Jeannette Durick, Toni Robertson, Margot Brereton, Frank Vetere and Bjorn Nansen. 2013. Dispelling Ageing Myths in Technology Design. In Proceedings of 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration (OzCHI ’13). ACM, 467-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2541016.2541040Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sarah Fox, Rachel Rose Ulgado and Daniela Rosner. 2015. Hacking Culture, Not Devices: Access and Recognition in Feminist Hackerspaces. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 56–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675223Google ScholarDigital Library
- Raune Frankj and Peter Dalsgaard. 2018. Understanding Craft-Based Inquiry in Hci. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, 3196750, 473-484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196750Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jorge Frascara. 2002. Design and the Social Sciences Making Connections. Taylor & Francis, New York.Google Scholar
- Batya Friedman and David G. Hendry. 2019. Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination. The MIT Press,Google Scholar
- Shannon Grimme, Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell. 2014. "We've Conquered Dark": Shedding Light on Empowerment in Critical Making. In Proceedings of 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational (NordiCHI ’14). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 431–440., 431-440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641204Google ScholarDigital Library
- Ea Lundbjerg Hansen, Julie Pflug von der Osten, Rosita Kanto and Pernille Bjørn. 2017. The Hackerspace Manifested as a Diy-Iot Entity: Shaping and Protecting the Identity of the Community. In Proceedings of 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. p. 205-221 (Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies; No. 202, Vol. 201). http://dx.doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2017-5Google Scholar
- Clint Heyer and Margot Brereton. 2010. Design from the Everyday: Continuously Evolving, Embedded Exploratory Prototypes. In Proceedings of 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’10). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 282–291, 282-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858222Google ScholarDigital Library
- Julie Hui and Elizabeth Gerber. Year. Developing Makerspaces as Sites of Entrepreneurship. In Proceedings of ACM, 2023-2038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998264Google Scholar
- Ole Sejer Iversen, Kim Halskov and Tuck W. Leong. 2012. Values-Led Participatory Design. CoDesign 8, 2-3, 87-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2012.672575Google ScholarCross Ref
- Ben Jelen, Anne Freeman, Mina Narayanan, Kate M. Sanders, James Clawson and Katie A. Siek. 2019. Craftec: Engaging Older Adults in Making through a Craft-Based Toolkit System. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 3295636, 577-587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295636Google ScholarDigital Library
- Ben Jelen, Susan Monsey and Katie A. Siek. 2019. Older Adults as Makers of Custom Electronics: Iterating on Craftec. In Proceedings of Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 3312755, 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312755Google Scholar
- Malone Joanna and Dadswell Anna. 2018. The Role of Religion, Spirituality and/or Belief in Positive Ageing for Older Adults. Geriatrics 3, 2, 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics3020028Google Scholar
- Anna Kalma, Bernd Ploderer and Laurianne Sitbon. 2018. Ageing and Making: A Positive Framing for Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. ACM, 3292181, 194-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3292147.3292181Google ScholarDigital Library
- Anna Kalma, Bernd Ploderer, Laurianne Sitbon and Margot Brereton. 2019. Probing Yarns About Ageing and Making. In Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 173–183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369472Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mike Kuniavsky. 2012. Observing the User Experience a Practitioner's Guide to User Research. Morgan Kaufmann (2nd ed.), Waltham, MA.Google Scholar
- Amanda Lazar, Raymundo Cornejo, Caroline Edasis and Anne Marie Piper. 2016. Designing for the Third Hand: Empowering Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment through Creating and Sharing. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 1047–1058. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901854Google ScholarDigital Library
- Amanda Lazar, Jessica L. Feuston, Caroline Edasis and Anne Marie Piper. 2018. Making as Expression: Informing Design with People with Complex Communication Needs through Art Therapy. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 3173925, 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173925Google ScholarDigital Library
- Amanda Lazar and David H. Nguyen. 2017. Successful Leisure in Independent Living Communities: Understanding Older Adults' Motivations to Engage in Leisure Activities. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 3025802, 7042-7056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025802Google Scholar
- Tuck Wah Leong and Toni Robertson. 2016. Voicing Values: Laying Foundations for Ageing People to Participate in Design. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full papers - Volume 1. ACM, 2940301, 31-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2940299.2940301Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jeannine L. M. Liddle, Lynne Parkinson and David W. Sibbritt. 2013. Purpose and Pleasure in Late Life: Conceptualising Older Women's Participation in Art and Craft Activities. Journal of Aging Studies 27, 4, 330-338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2013.08.002Google ScholarCross Ref
- Jeannine Liddle, Lynne Parkinson and David Sibbritt. 2014. Health-Related Factors Associated with Participation in Creative Hobbies by Australian Women Aged in Their Eighties. Arts & Health 6, 2, 132-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2013.808253Google ScholarCross Ref
- Ann Light, Tuck W. Leong and Toni Robertson. 2015. Ageing Well with Cscw. In Proceedings of ECSCW 2015: 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015. Springer International Publishing, 295-304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_16Google Scholar
- Siân E. Lindley, Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen. 2008. Designing for Elders: Exploring the Complexity of Relationships in Later Life. In Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 1. BCS Learning & Development Ltd., 77–86.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kevin Marshall, Anja Thieme, Jayne Wallace, John Vines, Gavin Wood and Madeline Balaam. 2014. Making Wellbeing: A Process of User-Centered Design. In Proceedings of In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14). Association for Computing Machinery, 755-764. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2600888Google ScholarDigital Library
- Susan H. McFadden and Anne D. Basting. 2010. Healthy Aging Persons and Their Brains: Promoting Resilience through Creative Engagement. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 26, 1, 149-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cger.2009.11.004Google ScholarCross Ref
- J. Meissner and G. Fitzpatrick. 2017. Urban Knitters on Interweaving Craft, Technologies and Urban Participation. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083674Google Scholar
- Soud Nassir, Tuck Wah Leong and Toni Robertson. 2015. Positive Ageing: Elements and Factors for Design. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction. ACM, 2838796, 264-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2838739.2838796Google ScholarDigital Library
- Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi and Lenneke Kuijer. 2018. Designing Connected Resources for Older People. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, 3196808, 413-425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196808Google ScholarDigital Library
- Michael Nitsche and Anna Weisling. 2019. When Is It Not Craft? Materiality and Mediation When Craft and Computing Meet. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 683–689. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295651Google ScholarDigital Library
- Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Katie A. Siek, Joel Chan and Amanda Lazar. 2020. Understanding Older Adults’ Participation in Design Workshops. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376299Google ScholarDigital Library
- Susan Quine, Diana Bernard and Hal Kendig. 2006. Understanding Baby Boomers’ Expectations and Plans for Their Retirement: Findings from a Qualitative Study. Australasian Journal on Ageing 25, 3, 145-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6612.2006.00170.xGoogle ScholarCross Ref
- Frances Reynolds. 2010. ‘Colour and Communion’: Exploring the Influences of Visual Art-Making as a Leisure Activity on Older Women's Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Aging Studies 24, 2, 135-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2008.10.004Google ScholarCross Ref
- Olivia Richards. 2017. Exploring the Empowerment of Older Adult Creative Groups Using Maker Technology. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 166-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3048425Google ScholarDigital Library
- Valeria Righi, Sergio Sayago and Josep Blat. 2017. When We Talk About Older People in Hci, Who Are We Talking About? Towards a Turn to Community in the Design of Technologies for a Growing Ageing Population 108, C, 15–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.06.005Google Scholar
- Yvonne Rogers, Jeni Paay, Margot Brereton, Kate Vaisutis, Gary Marsden and Frank Vetere. 2014. Never Too Old: Engaging Retired People Inventing the Future with Makey Makey. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Association for Computing Machinery. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3913-3922. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557184Google ScholarDigital Library
- Daniela Rosner. 2010. Mediated Crafts: Digital Practices around Creative Handwork. In Proceedings of CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2955-2958. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753894Google ScholarDigital Library
- Daniela Rosner. 2018. Critical Fabulations : Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Google Scholar
- Daniela K. Rosner, Miwa Ikemiya and Tim Regan. 2015. Resisting Alignment: Code and Clay. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 2680587, 181-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680587Google ScholarDigital Library
- Daniela K. Rosner, Samantha Shorey, Brock R. Craft and Helen Remick. 2018. Making Core Memory: Design Inquiry into Gendered Legacies of Engineering and Craftwork. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 3174105, 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174105Google Scholar
- Daniela Rosner and Kimiko Ryokai. 2008. Spyn: Augmenting Knitting to Support Storytelling and Reflection. In Proceedings of 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp ’08). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 340-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1409635.1409682Google ScholarDigital Library
- Daniela Rosner and Kimiko Ryokai. 2009. Reflections on Craft: Probing the Creative Process of Everyday Knitters. In Proceedings of Seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition (C&C ’09). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 195–204, 195-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640264Google ScholarDigital Library
- Daniela Rosner and Kimiko Ryokai. 2010. Spyn: Augmenting the Creative and Communicative Potential of Craft. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’10). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2407-2416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753691Google ScholarDigital Library
- Richard Sennett. 2008. The Craftsman. Yale University Press, New Haven.Google Scholar
- Alessandro Soro, Aloha Hufana Ambe and Margot Brereton. 2017. Minding the Gap: Reconciling Human and Technical Perspectives on the Iot for Healthy Ageing. Wirel Commun Mob Com 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7439361Google Scholar
- Alessandro Soro, Margot Brereton and Paul Roe. 2016. Towards an Analysis Framework of Technology Habituation by Older Users. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. ACM, 2901806, 1021-1033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901806Google ScholarDigital Library
- Yuling Sun, Silvia Lindtner, Xianghua Ding, Tun Lu and Ning Gu. 2015. Reliving the Past & Making a Harmonious Society Today: A Study of Elderly Electronic Hackers in China. In Proceedings of 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’15). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 44–55, 44-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675195Google ScholarDigital Library
- Joshua G. Tanenbaum, Amanda M. Williams, Audrey Desjardins and Karen Tanenbaum. 2013. Democratizing Technology: Pleasure, Utility and Expressiveness in Diy and Maker Practice. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2603–2612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2481360Google ScholarDigital Library
- Nick Taylor, Ursula Hurley and Philip Connolly. 2016. Making Community: The Wider Role of Makerspaces in Public Life. In Proceedings of 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1415–1425, 1415-1425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858073Google ScholarDigital Library
- Austin Toombs, Shaowen Bardzell and Jeffrey Bardzell. 2015. The Proper Care and Feeding of Hackerspaces: Care Ethics and Cultures of Making. In Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15). ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 629–638, 629-638. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702522Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hitomi Tsujita and Gregory D. Abowd. 2010. Socialmedicinebox: A Communication System for the Elderly Using Medicine Box. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct. ACM, 1864475, 437-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1864431.1864475Google Scholar
- Sherry Turkle. 2015. Reclaiming Conversation : The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. Penguin Press, New York.Google Scholar
- John Vines, Gary Pritchard, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier and Katie Brittain. 2015. An Age-Old Problem: Examining the Discourses of Ageing in Hci and Strategies for Future Research. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 22, 1, Article 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2696867Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jenny Waycott, Frank Vetere, Sonja Pedell, Lars Kulik, Elizabeth Ozanne, Alan Gruner and John Downs. 2013. Older Adults as Digital Content Producers. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470662Google ScholarDigital Library
- Etienne Wenger. 1998. Communities of Practice : Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. ;.Google Scholar
- Etienne Wenger. 2006. Communities of Practice: A Brief Introduction.Google Scholar
- WHO. 2002. Active Ageing: A Policy Framework. The Aging Male 5, 1, 37.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Mikael Wiberg. 2020. On Physical and Social Distancing: Reflections on Moving Just About Everything Online Amid Covid-19. interactions 27, 4, 38–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3404213Google Scholar
Recommendations
Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace
CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMakerspaces are being introduced in a wide variety of settings, including community settings such as schools and libraries. Older adults are one group for whom making agendas are being pursued, with envisioned outcomes such as supporting agency and well-...
Exploring the Use of Electronics to Customize Pervasive Health Technologies with Older Adult Crafters
PervasiveHealth '20: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for HealthcareAs the worldwide population ages, HCI researchers are designing technologies to better support older adults. We investigated how older adult crafters would customize technologies using electronics by building on their crafting skills. This supported ...
Speaking from Experience: Co-designing E-textile Projects with Older Adult Fiber Crafters
TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionResearchers support race, gender, and age diverse groups of people to create with maker electronics. These groups include older adults, who are often overlooked as not interested or capable of learning new technologies due to ageist stereotypes. One ...
Comments