Phase II of Direct[Message]: Evaluating Older Adults’ Access to Technology, Art, and Life through Enhanced Digital Technologies

The Mitacs intern will support the community-based project Direct[Message] to develop and undertake research to develop a final technology-based model that will help older adults connect with arts online. The intern will assist in the data collection and analysis of 30 older adult participants’ experiences using and testing an easy-to-use keyboard prototype and an accessible web-based platform. The intern will conduct individual interviews with approximately 10 older adults and facilitate 2 focus groups that contain a maximum of 10 older adults each. The findings gathered from this project will help shape the production of a final digital model that will be used by the artist-run art center Center[3] and the older adult population they serve.

Faculty Supervisor:

Carla Rice;Nadine Changfoot

Student:

Partner:

Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Other; Technology

University:

University of Guelph

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