Insights on Older Adults’ Willingness, Motives and Experiences regarding Participation in HCI research
- User-centered and Participatory Design approaches have become widespread within HCI, also when designing digital media for older adults. These methodologies are seen as crucial to adapt technology design to older people's needs and increase their acceptance of digital technology. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to reach a diverse group of older people, for instance, people with limited technology skills, limited mobility, or cognitive issues. In addition, gerontologists criticized lately how older people's participation unfolds in technology design projects, e.g. that people are pushed into the role of users. Little is known about the motivations and needs of older adults regarding their participation in HCI research. To close this gap, we conducted an online survey (N=46) and semi-structured interviews (N=8) focusing on motivations, willingness and experiences regarding participation. Results show that people are generally willing to participate due to interest in the topic,User-centered and Participatory Design approaches have become widespread within HCI, also when designing digital media for older adults. These methodologies are seen as crucial to adapt technology design to older people's needs and increase their acceptance of digital technology. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to reach a diverse group of older people, for instance, people with limited technology skills, limited mobility, or cognitive issues. In addition, gerontologists criticized lately how older people's participation unfolds in technology design projects, e.g. that people are pushed into the role of users. Little is known about the motivations and needs of older adults regarding their participation in HCI research. To close this gap, we conducted an online survey (N=46) and semi-structured interviews (N=8) focusing on motivations, willingness and experiences regarding participation. Results show that people are generally willing to participate due to interest in the topic, learning new things and social bonding. However, despite the conceptions within HCI that long-term engagement is crucial within participatory design, older people in the study preferred less commitment and more open formats.…
Author: | Karoline Marzi, Holger KlapperichORCiD, Alina HuldtgrenORCiD |
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open access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
open access : | Bronze - frei zugänglich aber ohne Lizenzhinweis, d.h. keine Weitergabe |
Fachbereich/Einrichtung: | Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Medien |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Year of Completion: | 2023 |
Language of Publication: | English |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery |
Place of publication: | New York |
Parent Title (English): | MuC '23: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2023, Rapperswil Switzerland, September 3 - 6, 2023 |
Editor: | Markus Stolze, Frieder Loch, Matthias Baldauf, Florian Alt, Christina Schneegrass, Thomas Kosch, Teresa Hirzle, Shadan Sadeghian, Fiona Draxler, Kenan Bektas, Katrin Lohan, Pascal Knierim |
First Page: | 432 |
Last Page: | 436 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3608540 |
ISBN: | 979-8-4007-0771-1 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke |
Licence (German): | keine Lizenz - nur Metadaten |
Release Date: | 2023/09/12 |