Abstract
Research indicates that social networking sites can be used to foster social interaction and reduce the risk of social isolation for the elderly demographic segment. Collaborative consumption, a new evolutionary step in SNS, enables the sharing of personal services, thus holding the potential to strengthen social integration and enable an independent lifestyle for the elderly. We therefore developed a local, service-oriented collaborative consumption platform called "Bring Dich ein!"with the purpose of facilitating social interaction across generations as well as the trade of peer-to-peer services. The platform was fully implemented in a participatory development process and evaluated in an extended pilot phase. The qualitative evaluation shows good usability for the elderly and high potential for the proposed concept within the target group.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 2537-2542 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
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| State | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Austin, TX |
| Period | 5/05/12 → 10/05/12 |
Keywords
- collaborative consumption
- elderly
- social networking