TY - GEN
T1 - Technological caregiving
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
AU - Piper, Anne Marie
AU - Cornejo, Raymundo
AU - Hurwitz, Lisa
AU - Unumb, Caitlin
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - With much of the population now online, the field of HCI faces new and pressing issues of how to help people sustain online activity throughout their lives, including through periods of disability. The onset of cognitive impairment later in life affects whether and how individuals are able to stay connected online and manage their digital information. While caregivers play a critical role in the offline lives of adults with cognitive impairments, less is known about how they support and enable online interaction. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, data from focus groups with caregivers of adults with cognitive impairments reveal four forms of cooperative work caregivers perform in the context of supporting online activity. We find that staying active online is a way of empowering and engaging adults with cognitive impairments, yet this introduces new forms of risk, surrogacy, and cooperative technology use to the already demanding work of caregiving.
AB - With much of the population now online, the field of HCI faces new and pressing issues of how to help people sustain online activity throughout their lives, including through periods of disability. The onset of cognitive impairment later in life affects whether and how individuals are able to stay connected online and manage their digital information. While caregivers play a critical role in the offline lives of adults with cognitive impairments, less is known about how they support and enable online interaction. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, data from focus groups with caregivers of adults with cognitive impairments reveal four forms of cooperative work caregivers perform in the context of supporting online activity. We find that staying active online is a way of empowering and engaging adults with cognitive impairments, yet this introduces new forms of risk, surrogacy, and cooperative technology use to the already demanding work of caregiving.
KW - Caregiving
KW - Social computing
KW - Vulnerable populations
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U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858260
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858260
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014777259
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 5311
EP - 5323
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -