@inproceedings{36a08c5283c845e8aa924bd374ab6edf,
title = "Living with pain, staying in touch: Exploring the communication needs of older adults with chronic pain",
abstract = "For older adults with chronic pain, maintaining social ties can be difficult. Both chronic pain and social isolation compound each other and are associated with poor health outcomes. Our research explores how technology can be used to facilitate communication and support for older adults with chronic pain. We report on preliminary results of field research with 20 participants and deployment of a digital communicating picture frame prototype. We found that chronic pain introduces unique barriers to synchronous contact and that our prototype seemed to fit the needs of these individuals by supporting meaningful asynchronous communication with the possibility for adjustable reciprocity.",
keywords = "Chronic pain, Connecting families, Internet communications, Media spaces, Senior citizens",
author = "Jessica David and Diane Gromala and Alison Benjamin and Jeremy Birnholtz and Ron Baecker",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1145/1979742.1979751",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450302289",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1219--1224",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts",
}