TY - GEN
T1 - Recruiting older adults in the wild
T2 - 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
AU - Binda, Jomara
AU - Wang, Xiying
AU - Carroll, John
PY - 2018/5/21
Y1 - 2018/5/21
N2 - It is important to understand the older adults prior to the design process. The understanding can better facilitate design conversations between the researchers and the older adults. In this paper, we discussed our experiences of building a relationship with the older adults in a local senior center. However, we encountered challenges when we tried to engaging the older adults, for example, skepticism towards the research purposes, reluctance to talk, and the difficulty of collecting data under a fun and leisure environment. We learned that creating relationships is important to engage older adults in research. Engaging the older adults in interactive dynamics could facilitate richer conversations with the older adults. Based on our lessons from interacting with the older adults, we propose that building long-term relationships and engaging older adults in fun research and design activities can facilitate a more successful participatory design.
AB - It is important to understand the older adults prior to the design process. The understanding can better facilitate design conversations between the researchers and the older adults. In this paper, we discussed our experiences of building a relationship with the older adults in a local senior center. However, we encountered challenges when we tried to engaging the older adults, for example, skepticism towards the research purposes, reluctance to talk, and the difficulty of collecting data under a fun and leisure environment. We learned that creating relationships is important to engage older adults in research. Engaging the older adults in interactive dynamics could facilitate richer conversations with the older adults. Based on our lessons from interacting with the older adults, we propose that building long-term relationships and engaging older adults in fun research and design activities can facilitate a more successful participatory design.
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U2 - 10.1145/3240925.3240947
DO - 10.1145/3240925.3240947
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055687503
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 290
EP - 293
BT - Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 May 2018 through 24 May 2018
ER -