Older people as equal partners in creative design
Sustar, H., Jones, S. & Dearden, A. (2013). Older people as equal partners in creative design. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Human Factors in Computing and Informatics, 7946 L, pp. 649-656. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39062-3_45
Abstract
Active older people want to be actively engaged by contributing their experiences to design better services and products. This paper demonstrates the importance of older peoples engagement in the creative design process in a small study where older people were engaged together with designers in the design of digital devices. Three creative workshops were conducted: the first with designers, the second with designers and older people, and the third with older people only. During the illumination stage of the creative process flexibility and flow were measured with topics and turns. Results show that when older people were working with designers more topics and a higher total number of turns were developed than by older people or designers working on their own, which indicates that they had the highest flexibility of ideas and possibly also the greatest flow.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Departments: | School of Science & Technology > Computer Science > Human Computer Interaction Design |
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