11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

We Are Healthier Together: Designing for Technology-Mediated Health Coproductions by Older Adults

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/3154862.3154899,
    author={Chien Wen Yuan and Benjamin Hanrahan and Richard Wirth and Mary Rosson and John Carroll},
    title={We Are Healthier Together: Designing for Technology-Mediated Health Coproductions by Older Adults},
    proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2018},
    month={1},
    keywords={participatory design coproduction health older adults technological mediation},
    doi={10.1145/3154862.3154899}
}
  • Chien Wen Yuan
    Benjamin Hanrahan
    Richard Wirth
    Mary Rosson
    John Carroll
    Year: 2018
    We Are Healthier Together: Designing for Technology-Mediated Health Coproductions by Older Adults
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/3154862.3154899
Chien Wen Yuan1, Benjamin Hanrahan1, Richard Wirth1, Mary Rosson1, John Carroll1,*
  • 1: College of IST, Pennsylvania State University
*Contact email: jcarroll@ist.psu.edu

Abstract

Engagement in social activities and participation in community, allows people to coproduce their own health and wellbeing. This paper reports an ongoing design study that uses an email listserv to support older adults to organize and enact more coproductions together. Email is a tool that our participants are familiar with and already use. We augment their daily practices and past experience of this simple technology for promoting health coproductions. We discuss the rationale for using email as a tool, the design of the listserv, and how the older adults use the new technology.

Keywords
participatory design coproduction health older adults technological mediation
Published
2018-01-16
Publisher
ACM
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3154862.3154899
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