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Designing for Sustainability: Key Issues of ICT Projects for Ageing at Home

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Achieving the sustainability of IT-based solutions is a challenge. We will argue in this paper that it is helpful to conceptualize designing for sustainable IT-based solutions as taking place in a multi-dimensional space. It requires thinking about how a project is framed; the perspectives and commitments of the project partners; the type of innovation that is foregrounded; the motivations and needs of the user group; and the level of sustainability a project or research program may achieve. The paper describes some of the challenges and possible solutions by revisiting a portfolio of projects that developed IT support for elderly people who continue living in their own homes.

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Meurer, Johanna; Müller, Claudia; Simone, Carla; Wagner, Ina; Wulf, Volker (2018): Designing for Sustainability: Key Issues of ICT Projects for Ageing at Home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 27(3-4)- ECSCW 2018: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-018-9317-1. Springer, London. PISSN: ISSN 0925-9724. Long Papers. Nancy, France. 4-8 June 2018

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ICT design, Sustainability, Elderly people, Appropriation, Capacity building, Funding schemes, Collective learning

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