Online Social Environments for Active Ageing
Guest Editors
Important dates
• Deadline: June 6, 2022 (extended)
• Notification to the authors: July 25, 2022
• Camera ready paper: August 31, 2022
• Publication of the special issue: first half of September, 2022
Overview
Topics of Interest
Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: Theory on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing, Design and Development of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing and Evaluation Methods of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better Active Ageing.
Theory on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing
- Information and Digital Literacy
- Use or Non-use of Socio-Gerontechnology
- Acceptance and Use of Technology
- Intergenerational Differences in Uses and Gratifications
- Physio-, Psycho- and Social Digitally-mediated Approaches to Active Ageing
- Ethics assessment in the use of digitally-mediated interventions for active ageing
Design and Development of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing
- Designing Online Communities for Active Ageing
- CoDesign and Community Centred Design Approaches
- Accessibility tools and features
- Experience Design for Active Ageing
- Media Design Kits in Active Aging and Wellness
- Development of Digital Services for Active Ageing
Evaluation Methods of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing
- Process evaluation of digitally-mediated interventions
- Prototype evaluation (Information, Interaction and Visuals)
- Impact evaluation and Measure of Behaviour Changes
- Social and ICT Usage Metrics
- Scale Development and Validation
Submission procedure
All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted anonymized either in .doc or in .rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Perspective participants are invited to submit a 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines .
Submission page -> link
(when submitting the paper please choose the section: 'SI: Online Social Environments for Active Ageing')
For scientific advices and for any query please contact the guest-editor:
• carlossantos [at] ua [dot] pt
• sonia [dot] ferreira [at] esev [dot] ipv [dot] pt
marking the subject as: 'IxD&A special issue on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing''.