| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
How diversity gets lost
— age and gender in design practices of information and communication technologies | | Author(s) | Nelly Oudshoorn, Louis Neven, Marcelle Stienstra |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, no 2, [March-April] 2016 |
| Publisher | Routledge, [March-April] 2016 |
| Pages | pp 170-185 (IN: Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, nos 1-3, 2016) |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline,com |
| Keywords | Age groups [elderly] ; Adolescents ; Information technology ; Computers ; Design ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | The authors adopt an intersectional approach to investigate how age, gender, and diversity are represented, silenced, or prioritised in design. Based on a comparative study of design practices of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for young girls and older people, this article describes differences and similarities in the ways in which designers tried to cope with diversity. In one study, an ambient intelligence (AmI) robot was developed for older people, while the other study looked at Kidcom, a computer game for girls. Consideration of diversity was neglected; and the developers relied on hegemonic views of gender and age, constructed older people and young girls as an "other", and consequently their opinions were ignored. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160805254 A |
| Classmark | BB: SC: UVB: 3O: 33: 48 |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|