Press F1 for help: participatory design for dealing with on-line and real life security of older adults
This addresses security challenges for older adults in online and mobile contexts, but it is incremental as it applies existing participatory design methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackled the problem of improving online and real-life security for older adults by developing a platform for inter-generational favor exchange using participatory design during a hackathon, resulting in improved application design and an effective method for enhancing security solutions.
In this paper we present the report on the design and development of a platform for the inter-generational exchange of favors. This platform was designed using participatory design approach during a 24-hour hackathon by a team consisting of younger programmers and older adults. The findings of this report show that inter-generational cooperation in which the older adults serve as representatives of the end user, not only improves the design and development of the application, but also provides an effective method for designing and applying solutions aimed at improving the security of older adults while using online and mobile tools.