2nd Workshop on Designing with Older Adults

Abstract

The ageing process can interfere considerably with the use of mobile devices, e.g. due to changes in vision, attention, and motor control. Designing mobile technology with older adults poses its own challenges. In the absence of a complete methodology for working with older users, researchers and designers are often left to improvise their own methods. This can result in co-design relationships being compromised and weak design insights emerging. How can we best adapt or modify existing methods for working with this group?

Designing Mobile Interactions for the Ageing Populations

“…Evaluating senior-based user interfaces still face many challenges, particularly in accurately understanding the preferences, habits, and adoption challenges of older adults [16]. This topic will focus on discussing the state-of-the-art evaluation methods, to discuss how suitable is the current methods to judge the efficacy of the mobile interface design, and identify future research opportunities.…”

“…Yet there is increasingly strong evidence that HCI researchers are increasingly interested in this topic. This is exemplified by the very large attendance (more than 50 participants) to our first Special Interest Group (SIG) on Older Adults, at CHI 2016 [10], or by the numerous submissions received by recent workshops such as Reimagining commonly used mobile interfaces for older adults in MobileHCI 2014 [15], and 2nd Workshop on Designing with Older Adults: Towards a Complete Methodology in MobileHCI 2015 [16] or the first-ever international symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations [17], held in October 2016. All these recent events were co-organized by the proponents of this workshop submission.…”

Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations – Addressing Global Challenges

“…Yet there is increasinglystrong evidence that HCI researchers are becoming interested in this topic. This is exemplified by the very large attendance (more than 50 participants) to our first Special Interest Group (SIG) on Older Adults, held at CHI 2016 [13], or by the numerous submissions received by recent workshops such as Re-imagining commonly used mobile interfaces for older adults in MobileHCI 2014 [11], and 2nd Workshop on Designing with Older Adults: Towards a Complete Methodology in MobileHCI 2015 [12] or the first-ever international symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations [14], held in October 2016. As a continuation, we conducted a workshop on Designing Mobile Interactions for the Ageing Populations at CHI 2017 [15] followed by the workshop on Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations at CHI 2018 [16], which attracted people from diversified areas like Gerontology, Accessibility, and Psychology.…”

Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations - Addressing Global Challenges

“…Yet there is increasingly-strong evidence that HCI researchers are becoming interested in this topic. This is exemplified by the very large attendance (more than 50 participants) to our first Special Interest Group (SIG) on Older Adults, held at CHI 2016 [13], or by the numerous submissions received by recent workshops such as Reimagining commonly used mobile interfaces for older adults in MobileHCI 2014 [11], and 2nd Workshop on Designing with Older Adults: Towards a Complete Methodology in MobileHCI 2015 [12] or the first-ever international symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations [14], held in October 2016. As a continuation, we conducted a workshop on Designing Mobile Interactions for the Ageing Populations at CHI 2017 [15] followed by the workshop on Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations at CHI 2018 [16], which attracted people from diversified areas like Gerontology, Accessibility, and Psychology.…”