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Towards ICT Support for Elderly Displaced People: Looking for Natural Gestures

In: Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering

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  • Alessandra Melonio

    (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila)

  • Laura Tarantino

    (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila)

  • Tania Mascio

    (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila)

Abstract

In the aftermath of natural disaster ICT-based tools can support technology-erudite people but risk to sharpen the isolation of vulnerable population groups because, e.g., of grey digital divide. In this paper we discuss some usability studies performed after L’Aquila earthquake on elderly people at risk of social isolation, to single out interaction needs and platform requirements for easy-to-use elderly oriented tools ideally not requiring learning need. In particular, we focus our analysis on intuitiveness of multifinger gestures on tablets.

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  • Alessandra Melonio & Laura Tarantino & Tania Mascio, 2012. "Towards ICT Support for Elderly Displaced People: Looking for Natural Gestures," Springer Books, in: Marco De Marco & Dov Te'eni & Valentina Albano & Stefano Za (ed.), Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering, edition 127, pages 135-143, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-7908-2789-7_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_16
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