Paper Info
Title
The Digital Life of Vulnerable Users: Designing with Children, Patients, and Elderly.
Abstract
Vulnerability is about being at risk and it is often understood as the effect of limited physical or cognitive capabilities, such as age, frailty or illness. Vulnerable people are frequently excluded from the design of technologies that could in fact support them in tackling these risks. This paper explores designing with three vulnerable groups: children with special needs, chronically ill teenage patients, and isolated, or afraid of being so in the near future, elderly adults. We choose three distinct groups in order to show the breadth and variations in the ways in which people may be vulnerable. We looked at their digital lives and possible new risks and dependencies created by the use of digital technologies. Designing with vulnerable people is practically, methodologically, and ethically challenging. We show how methodological and reflexive sensibilities help to address these challenges and keep the design process on track.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39832-2_4
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Vulnerable users,interfaces,teenage patients,children with special needs,elderly,design of privacy,reflexivity,social networks
Reflexivity,Internet privacy,Special needs,Social network,Computer science,Digital Life,Artificial intelligence,Engineering design process,Cognition,Machine learning,Vulnerability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
156
1865-1348
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
27
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alma Leora Culén1156.57
Maja van der Velden292.47