Title
Urban ageing: technology, agency and community in smarter cities for older people
Abstract
Despite the widespread popularity of smart cities in policy and research fields, and the ever-increasing ageing population in urban areas, ageing issues have seldom been addressed in depth in smart city programs. The main focus has hitherto been on making physical environments 'older people friendly'. We review studies in environmental gerontology, policies and HCI that show the multifaceted relationship between ageing and cities. We discuss two case studies with scenarios of engagement of older people in urban areas we undertook in the past 4 years. By drawing upon the results, we propose a vision of smart city that conceives of older people as embedded in intergenerational urban communities and capable of creating new engagement situations by reconfiguring IT-driven scenarios to their interests and social practices. This paper aims at expanding the current visions of smart cities for older people by building along three main dimensions: technology, agency and community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2768545.2768552
C&T
Field
DocType
Citations 
Public relations,Computer science,Popularity,Vision,Population ageing,Smart city
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.67
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valeria Righi1214.52
Sergio Sayago212415.15
Josep Blat357071.54