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Online Social Networks and Older People

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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The number of older people is growing significantly and accounts for an ever-increasing percentage of the global population [1]. Online social networks are continuously gaining more relevance and presence in everyday life for communication, work and social interaction. Despite those trends, there is little knowledge on how older people use online social networks, and the benefits derived from it or the possible negative impacts [2], [3]. This paper examines how older people use online social networks and the factors which influence this use.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Guillermo Prieto & Denise Leahy

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Prieto, G., Leahy, D. (2012). Online Social Networks and Older People. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_100

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