Workshop
More older adults are online and using social media than ever before. To understand the needs, challenges, and potential in older adults use of social media, we are holding an interdisciplinary workshop on social media and older adults at the SocInfo conference in Seattle, WA on Nov 14th, 2016. This full day workshop will for explore issues surrounding around older adults’ use of social media use among in older adults from a variety of perspectives while placing older adults at the center of our discussions as we aim to identify older adults’ needs, barriers, preferences, and benefits when adopting various social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.), and understand the possible ramifications of new communication modalities, if and when adopted by older adults.
We invite long (7-9 pages), short (4-6 pages) and demo (2 pages) papers from psychologists, human computer interactionists, social informaticians, gerontologists and anyone else who works with the target population. Competitive papers will deepen, expand, or bring new perspectives or applications to understanding and knowledge to the interdisciplinary field of older adults and social media. Together, presentations in this workshop will define future research directions. As far as we know, no other workshop on a similar topic has been organized before.
The workshop will consist of several sessions. During each session, 3-4 papers focused on a particular topic will be presented. The sessions will conclude with thought-provoking questions suggested by the presenters. The workshop participants will be asked to break into groups and discuss these questions. We will encourage use of white boards/ notepads to elicit ideas and thoughts around discussion questions. We will conclude the workshop with main take-away points and ideas for white papers.
Papers:
All submissions must be original and not previously presented at another conference or published in a journal. Long papers will be invited for oral presentations and short papers will be invited for poster presentations.
- Long papers: (7-9 pages, including references)
Long papers represent mature and complete research that make a significant and meaningful unique contribution to new knowledge in the field of older adults’ use of social media. Long papers are at most 9 pages in length. - Short Papers: (4-6 pages, including references)
Late breaking results and works in progress can be submitted as short papers. Short papers should be at most 4 pages long. Short papers have a more focused and and concise - Demo Papers: (2 pages, including references)
Demo papers provide researchers with the opportunity to present and discuss their previously unpublished work during end of the poster session.
Topics of Interest
We are looking for submissions on (but not limited to) the following themes:
Potential (opportunities and risks) social media use among older adults |
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Implications of older adults’ needs and abilities on social media use |
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Innovative methodologies in the analysis of social media use among older adults |
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Access to social media |
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Effects (and implications) of social media use |
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Design and evaluation guidelines |
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Evaluation Criteria
Each paper will be reviewed by 2-3 committee members. We are looking for papers that meet the following criteria:
- within the scope of the topic of the workshop;
- makes a novel theoretical or practical contribution;
- potential to attract high participation;
- conceptual development and grounding in prior literature;
- methodological adequacy (if relevant);
- adequate list of references to related work and grounding theories;
- well-structured and clearly written
Papers extending an existing work or describing an innovative application will also be considered.
Original manuscripts should be submitted in English in pdf format through the EasyChair. The manuscripts should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines.