"Luckily, I don't need it": elderly and the use of artifacts for time management

  • Authors:
  • Leonardo Giusti;Eleonora Mencarini;Massimo Zancanaro

  • Affiliations:
  • FBK-irst, Trento, Italy;University of Siena, Siena, Italy;FBK-irst, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the artifacts and the practices that a group of elderly people use to plan future events and remembering information about future event at the proper time. The role of such artifacts in the construction of a narrative and emotional account of elderly life is discussed. A particular attention is given to the description of the values that mediate the use of time-scheduling artifacts. By taking into consideration the whole complexity of time management ecology, we finally suggest a number of design opportunities.