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Kelly Leonard defending MA thesis on “Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through the use of Computers and Tablets”
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Bringing the Community to You!, News, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineKelly Leonard, a Research Assistant who has been working with ACT for two years, will soon defend her MA thesis titled “Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through the use of Computers and Tablets” on August 21 at Concordia University. Her project was supervised by ACT co-applicant Shannon Hebblethwaite. Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through […]
Josephine Dolan on ‘Old age’, gender and the silvering of contemporary Hollywood cinema
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineKeep Calm and Reboot: Older Adults’ Experiences of Technostress
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Grannies on the Net, In focus, Technophobia and Technostress among Older ICT Users /by Constance LafontaineWhile the manifestation of technostress is common across age, gender and cultural contexts, older adults have very specific challenges. Older adults, despite being the fastest growing segment of ICT users, are often ignored in technostress research, thus very little is known about how they experience and cope with it.
IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
/in ACT Scroll, Meetings /by Kendra BesangerThe ACT partnership was very well represented at one of the largest ever conferences in ageing studies: the IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, a joint conference hosted by the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) and the Gerontological Association of America (GSA), that took place in San Francisco in July 2017. ACT […]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ACT graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Constance LafontaineEmerging research on later life ACT Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium October 5th , Concordia University, Montreal The research project Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT), housed in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, is seeking proposals for its first graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium. The one-day symposium, titled “Emerging research […]
ACT panel at the IAGG conference in San Francisco
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Digital self-tracking and ‘quantified aging’, Events, Grannies on the Net, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineACT represented in three panels at the Human Computer Interaction conference in Vancouver
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, Grannies on the Net, Smart Watches, The impact of exergames /by Constance LafontaineEugène Loos launched the Intergenerational Gaming Platform at the Human Computer Interaction conference held in July in Vancouver, Canada. He also organized three panels: New media in the life of older people, Digital gaming among older populations, Intergenerational use of new media. The panels were presented as part of the stream on Human Aspects […]
CREATIVE METHODS IN HEALTH AND WELLBEING SEMINAR SERIES
/in ACT Scroll, Meetings, News /by Kendra BesangerOver two seminars in May and June 2017, this seminar series brought together inter/national researchers, social scientists, artists, policymakers and practitioners to explore and document the possibilities and limitations of a diverse range of creative methods and key methodological issues when researching health and wellbeing and everyday life. In particular, the seminar series focused on […]