Abstract
The 'Life Story' service for writing and publishing
memoirs was iteratively constructed with the aim of
offering a domain for senior citizens for writing short,
personal recollections and a lower threshold for entering
the social media. To confirm that the needs and
requirements of the forthcoming users - in this case
elderly citizens - were well understood, potential users
participated in the process from the beginning. This
occurred through user evaluation studies aimed at
understanding how users perceive and experience the
service. Users were expected to provide design
information for constructing the 'Life Story'
application. The first focus-group study concentrated on
ordinary senior citizens, the method for studying their
expectations being the semi-structured focus group
interview. The aim of the second user study was to
evaluate the first version of the application. Here the
study focused on critical users: members of a
memoir-writing group
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference, MindTrek 2012 |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery ACM |
| Pages | 147-153 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1637-8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| MoE publication type | Not Eligible |
| Event | 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: "Envisioning Future Media Environments", MindTrek 2012 - Tampere, Finland Duration: 3 Oct 2012 → 5 Oct 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: "Envisioning Future Media Environments", MindTrek 2012 |
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| Abbreviated title | MindTrek 2012 |
| Country/Territory | Finland |
| City | Tampere |
| Period | 3/10/12 → 5/10/12 |
Keywords
- Design
- experimentation
- human factors
- social media
- design requirements
- front end of innovation
- user experience
- constructive design research