The Configuration of Older Users as Drivers of Innovation in the Design of Digital Technologies

Endter, Cordula; Merkel, Sebastian; Künemund, Harald

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dc.contributor.author	Endter, Cordula	de
dc.contributor.author	Merkel, Sebastian	de
dc.contributor.author	Künemund, Harald	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-28T16:33:29Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-28T16:33:29Z
dc.date.issued	2021	de
dc.identifier.issn	2562-7147	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/93502
dc.description.abstract	This paper develops hypotheses on the discovery of older people as "users" in the publicly funded development of digital technologies and underlying innovation policy motives. We then describe the effects of this innovation policy on the development of products and older people as their users in the context of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). To this end, we reconstruct the involvement of users in two AAL funding programs, one at the European level and one at the national level (Germany). Based on this, we discuss the resulting consequences by describing how older people are configured as users in technology development with a focus on the concept of user-centered design (UCD) and what this configuration means for the developed technologies as well as for the older users. We describe how the participation of older people in technology development projects is a complex task that is not without controversy in social science research on user participation. We conclude by arguing for alternative technology development strategies and funding practices.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.other	innovation age; digitization; funding policies; user-centred design (UCD); solution-centered design	de
dc.title	The Configuration of Older Users as Drivers of Innovation in the Design of Digital Technologies	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://revistas.ufpr.br/novation/article/view/91147/49256	de
dc.source.journal	NOvation - Critical Studies of Innovation
dc.publisher.country	MISC	de
dc.source.issue	3	de
dc.subject.classoz	Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Innovation	de
dc.subject.thesoz	innovation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Beteiligung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	participation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Förderpolitik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	funding policy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Entwicklung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	development	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Technologie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	technology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	alter Mensch	de
dc.subject.thesoz	elderly	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Innovationspolitik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	innovation policy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.subject.thesoz	technische Entwicklung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	technical development	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz., Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	90-109	de
internal.identifier.classoz	10220
internal.identifier.journal	2993
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	301
dc.source.issuetopic	Popular users: why and how innovation research started to consider users in the innovation process	de
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.5380/nocsi.v0i3.91147	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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internal.dda.reference	https://revistas.ufpr.br/novation/oai@@oai:revistas.ufpr.br:article/91147
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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