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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Other
| Other | 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Jersey City |
| Period | 11/3/18 → 11/7/18 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction
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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).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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