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Making the Wii at home: Game play by older people in sheltered housing
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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:03 authored by Dave Harley, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Lesley Axelrod, Gareth White, Graham McAllisterGames such as the Nintendo Wii¿ are being promoted for use by all ages but there is little experience with how groups of older people integrate Wii playing into their physical and social spaces. This paper focuses on Wii¿ game play by older people in Sheltered Housing schemes, as part of an initiative to promote physical and social activity in these settings. Using participant observations, interviews and video analysis of sessions over a year we show how older people actively construct the sense of a meeting place as part of their Wii game play and the social processes that underlie this. Through the use of bounded regions and a sense of decorum older players create a 'sacred space' around the Wii where they can learn new technical literacies, make new social connections with peers and take ownership of the communal spaces in which they live. We conclude with guidelines for encouraging appropriation and empowerment for older people through game play in communal housing settings.
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- Published
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03029743Publisher
Springer-Verlag.External DOI
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6389Pages
21.0Presentation Type
- paper
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6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability EngineeringEvent location
KlagenfurtEvent type
conferenceISBN
3642166067Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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