Chapter-10 Raising Users' Confidence in their own Technology Literacy as part of the Design Process
Marie Sjölinder
Research Institute of Sweden, RISE, Email: marie.sjolinder@ri.se
Introduction
With digitalization, interest is growing around the topic of ageing and what it may mean for society to have an increased number of older people in Europe. This has influenced research related to older people and technology (Longhurst et al., 2017; Nikou, 2015; Turkle, 1995). It has also generated a lot of worry related to how older people will manage in the future society, as a high degree of digital literacy will be required (Eriksson and Sjölinder, 2019).
There are many assumptions regarding ageing that are deeply rooted ...
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