User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies
The participation of older people in technology development is an ambivalent field: while promising a better fit between users and technology, it still is challenging for both the project and for older users. This is particularly the case when older people with cognitive or physical impairments are...
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University of Bologna – Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione
2021-03-01
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| description | The participation of older people in technology development is an ambivalent field: while promising a better fit between users and technology, it still is challenging for both the project and for older users. This is particularly the case when older people with cognitive or physical impairments are to be involved. The article examines the configuration of older people as users in the design of a digital memory training for older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Referring to (feminist) STS, this configuration is conceptualised as a matter of care. Based on an ethnographic field study the article unfolds the spatial, affective, discursive and material practices of user configuration and describes ambivalences and asymmetries in the configuration process that determine the configuration of older people as users in user-centred design. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e015872cafbe4299aa2cc57e95763d742024-01-22T10:27:43ZengUniversity of Bologna – Dipartimento di Filosofia e ComunicazioneTecnoscienza2038-34602021-03-011129311610.6092/issn.2038-3460/1747915838User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive TechnologiesCordula Endter0German Centre of Gerontology, BerlinThe participation of older people in technology development is an ambivalent field: while promising a better fit between users and technology, it still is challenging for both the project and for older users. This is particularly the case when older people with cognitive or physical impairments are to be involved. The article examines the configuration of older people as users in the design of a digital memory training for older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Referring to (feminist) STS, this configuration is conceptualised as a matter of care. Based on an ethnographic field study the article unfolds the spatial, affective, discursive and material practices of user configuration and describes ambivalences and asymmetries in the configuration process that determine the configuration of older people as users in user-centred design.https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/17479agetechnologyconfigurationuser-centred designfeminist sts |
| spellingShingle | Cordula Endter User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies Tecnoscienza age technology configuration user-centred design feminist sts |
| title | User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies |
| title_full | User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies |
| title_fullStr | User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies |
| title_short | User Participation as a Matter of Care. The Configuration of Older Users in the Design of Assistive Technologies |
| title_sort | user participation as a matter of care the configuration of older users in the design of assistive technologies |
| topic | age technology configuration user-centred design feminist sts |
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