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1. edition 2005, 248 pages, soft cover.
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The field of Senior Citizens and information and communication technology (ICT) is a rather new field and there is not much published in this area yet. For many years the relationship between seniors and ICT has mainly been discussed in terms of how technology can be used to compensate for the impairments many old people have to face. In this volume, we take another point of departure.

First of all, we do not understand Senior Citizens to be a homogeneous group where all people over a certain age are impaired, and in the need of help. Second, when the relationship between Senior Citizens and ICT is actually discussed, it is very often as a discussion of how helpers of the old people (nurses, home helpers, physicians and the like) can make use of ICT. Here, we focus on how the Senior Citizens themselves can utilize ICT.

This change of the scope introduces a new theme into the debate raising new questions, in particular the question of how a digital divide, in which the Senior Citizens are excluded from the information society, can be reduced. In this volume, older ICT users are identified just as several activities, provided by governments, non-profit organizations, and other actors, are analysed. Most of these activities are engaged in finding solutions to how the seniors learn to use the technology, and in improving their everyday life enhancing its quality.

Contents:

• Preface
  
  
• 1. Introduction by Birgit Jæger
  
  
• 2. Design Paradigms and Misunderstood Technology: The Case of Older Users by Britt Östlund
  
  
• 3. Elderly People's Use and Acceptance of ICT by Heidrun Mollenkopf & Roman Kaspar
  
  
• 4. The Image of Senior Citizens, Elderly Care, and ICT in Newspapers by Lars Fuglsang
  
  
• 5. The Inclusion of Senior Citizens in the Information Society - What have we learned? by Birgit Jæger
  
  
• 6. Non-users, Users and Ex-users. The Senior Net Project, a Social Experiment with ICT by Sune Johansson
  
  
• 7. The Digital Literacy of Older Citizens in Extremadura (Spain) by Artemio Baigorri & Mar Chaves
  
  
• 8. Does Computer Training Translate to E-political Empowerment among Midwestern Senior Citizens? by Lisa Thrane et al.
  
  
• 9. Getting Older Adults Online: The Experiences of SeniorNet (USA) and Old Kids (China) by Bo Xie
  
  
• 10. Evaluation of Senior Friendly Product Development: The Impact of Senior Participation by Stefanie Becker
  
  
• 11. Introduction to references by Birgit Jæger
  
  
• References
  
  
• About the Authors