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When Simple Technologies Make Life Difficult

Authors:
Suhas Govind Joshi

Keywords: simplicity, elderly, welfare technology

Abstract:
In this paper, we use the case of elderly living with welfare technology to demonstrate how technology intended to be simple often defeats its own end. We discuss why simplicity requires attention and consideration not only to the context-detached design but also to the design in use as applying analytic and imagined simplicity does not guarantee experienced simplicity. We provide examples and evaluation results to help argue for our perspective on simplicity and present five implications for design pursuing simplicity.

Pages: 168 to 177

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-382-7

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015