Ordinary innovations of older adults: An interview study to understand interest development in aging

Xiying Wang; Tiffany Knearem; John Carroll

doi:10.1145/3272973.3274068

Ordinary innovations of older adults: An interview study to understand interest development in aging

Xiying Wang, Tiffany Knearem, John Carroll

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Abstract

Building and maintaining personal interests are important for older adults to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. In this paper, we discuss older adults’ innovative ways of developing their interests and the related influence on their health and well-being. We conducted an interview study with 20 healthy older adults to investigate the practices around interest development and the impact of those experiences on their quality of life. We found out that older adults pursued unexpectedly creative ways to develop their personal interests, which not only contributed to emotional well-being, but also significantly influenced the liveliness and the sustainability of their local community which in turn sustained active aging.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	253-256
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450360180
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274068
State	Published - Oct 30 2018
Event	21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018 - Jersey City, United States Duration: Nov 3 2018 → Nov 7 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Other

Other	21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018
Country	United States
City	Jersey City
Period	11/3/18 → 11/7/18

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Software
Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction

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Wang, X., Knearem, T., & Carroll, J. (2018). Ordinary innovations of older adults: An interview study to understand interest development in aging. In CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 253-256). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274068

Wang, Xiying ; Knearem, Tiffany ; Carroll, John. / Ordinary innovations of older adults : An interview study to understand interest development in aging. CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. pp. 253-256 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Wang, X, Knearem, T & Carroll, J 2018, Ordinary innovations of older adults: An interview study to understand interest development in aging. in CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 253-256, 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018, Jersey City, United States, 11/3/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274068

Ordinary innovations of older adults : An interview study to understand interest development in aging. / Wang, Xiying; Knearem, Tiffany; Carroll, John.

CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 253-256 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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