TY - BOOK ID - 72006959 TI - Ageing and Technology AU - Emma Domínguez-Rué; Linda Nierling AU - Emma Domínguez-Rué AU - Linda Nierling AU - Nierling, Linda PY - 2016 SN - 9783839429570 3839429579 9783837629576 3837629570 PB - Bielefeld transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Technology and older people. KW - Older people and technology KW - Technology and the aged KW - Older people KW - Aging Studies. KW - Body. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Sociology of Technology. KW - Sociology. KW - Technology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72006959 AB - The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices. This volume aims at focusing on the perspective of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens. ER -