TY - GEN
T1 - The intangible outcomes of an intergenerational hackathon for active aging
T2 - 18th Biennial Participatory Design Conference - Reaching Out: Connecting Beyond Participation, PDC 2024
AU - Wang, Gubing
AU - Kasraian, Dena
AU - Lu, Yuan
AU - Hurst, William
AU - Jambroes, Marielle
AU - Van Wesemael, Pieter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Owner/Author.
PY - 2024/8/11
Y1 - 2024/8/11
N2 - Ensuring the design process aligns with active aging is as crucial as designing products for older adults promoting active aging. An emerging approach is to bring together OA with younger generations to collaborate on solutions for active aging via intergenerational hackathons. This study explored the intangible outcomes of an intergenerational hackathon aimed at promoting active aging. This hackathon was organized by an interdisciplinary team together with a senior center, and a mixed methods approach was applied to understand the experiences of participants during the hackathon and their reflections. The intangible outcomes were identified and mapped based on the scale of their effects on active aging, indicating intergenerational hackathons could be a lasting approach to foster active aging. Design implications for conducting this type of hackathon were formulated, and we position our findings as the starting point for researchers and practitioners exploring intergenerational hackathons as an approach to active aging.
AB - Ensuring the design process aligns with active aging is as crucial as designing products for older adults promoting active aging. An emerging approach is to bring together OA with younger generations to collaborate on solutions for active aging via intergenerational hackathons. This study explored the intangible outcomes of an intergenerational hackathon aimed at promoting active aging. This hackathon was organized by an interdisciplinary team together with a senior center, and a mixed methods approach was applied to understand the experiences of participants during the hackathon and their reflections. The intangible outcomes were identified and mapped based on the scale of their effects on active aging, indicating intergenerational hackathons could be a lasting approach to foster active aging. Design implications for conducting this type of hackathon were formulated, and we position our findings as the starting point for researchers and practitioners exploring intergenerational hackathons as an approach to active aging.
KW - co-creation
KW - Co-design
KW - education
KW - older adults
KW - societal change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85204880239&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3666094.3666114
DO - 10.1145/3666094.3666114
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85204880239
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 208
EP - 220
BT - PDC '24: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2024
A2 - D'Andrea, Vincenzo
A2 - de Paula, Rogerio Abreu
A2 - Geppert, Amanda Anne
A2 - Brereton, Margot
A2 - Del Gaudio, Chiara
A2 - Jensen, Mika Yasuoka
A2 - Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike
A2 - Zaman, Tariq
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 11 August 2024 through 16 August 2024
ER -