Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

Abstract

Globally observed trends in aging indicate that older adults constitute a growing share of the population and an increasing demographic in the modern technologies marketplace. Therefore, it has become important to address the issue of participation of older adults in the process of developing solutions suitable for their group. In this study, we approached this topic by organizing a hackathon involving teams of young programmers and older adults participants. Below we describe a case study of that hackathon, in which our objective was to motivate older adults to participate in software engineering processes. Based on our results from an array of qualitative methods, we propose a set of good practices that may lead to improved older adult participation in similar events and an improved process of developing apps that target older adults.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-36
Number of pages	36
Journal	Empirical Software Engineering
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-017-9565-6
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 23 Nov 2017

Keywords

Co-design
Elderly
Hackathons
Intergenerational cooperation
Intergenerational interaction
Older adults
Participatory design
Qualitative methods
User experience
User-centered design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Kopeć, W., Balcerzak, B., Nielek, R., Kowalik, G., Wierzbicki, A., & Casati, F. (Accepted/In press). Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study. Empirical Software Engineering, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-017-9565-6

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