ONLINE MEDIA IN FAVOUR OF THE DIGITAL INCLUSION - A Case Study with Elderly People in Brazil

Antonia Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque, Placido Rogério Pinheiro

2011

Abstract

The popularization of Internet access in home context has been making elderly people and others with no computer literacy to become more motivated to learn and to use those services. This paper presents a case study elaborated to get information on how Brazilian elderly are becoming computer literate, what are their difficulties and challenges to adapt themselves to the use of popular technologies nowadays. The goals of this research are to identify educational difficulties still faced by elderly in the learning process of home computer technologies, as well as to identify which main topics in the technology design are working as limiting factors for that process. We discuss the results, and describe a futuristic scenario to illustrate new paradigms of interaction built over the same previous concepts. We believe that keeping elderly motivated to learn could possibly contribute to increase the digital inclusion.

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Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque A. and Rogério Pinheiro P. (2011). ONLINE MEDIA IN FAVOUR OF THE DIGITAL INCLUSION - A Case Study with Elderly People in Brazil . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8425-50-8, pages 195-203. DOI: 10.5220/0003348301950203


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@conference{csedu11,
author={Antonia Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque and Placido Rogério Pinheiro},
title={ONLINE MEDIA IN FAVOUR OF THE DIGITAL INCLUSION - A Case Study with Elderly People in Brazil},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2011},
pages={195-203},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003348301950203},
isbn={978-989-8425-50-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - ONLINE MEDIA IN FAVOUR OF THE DIGITAL INCLUSION - A Case Study with Elderly People in Brazil
SN - 978-989-8425-50-8
AU - Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque A.
AU - Rogério Pinheiro P.
PY - 2011
SP - 195
EP - 203
DO - 10.5220/0003348301950203