Globally observed trends in aging indicate that older adults constitute a growing share of the population and an increasing demographic in the modern technologies marketplace. Therefore, it has become important to address the issue of participation of older adults in the process of developing solutions suitable for their group. In this study, we approached this topic by organizing a hackathon involving teams of young programmers and older adults participants. Below we describe a case study of that hackathon, in which our objective was to motivate older adults to participate in software engineering processes. Based on our results from an array of qualitative methods, we propose a set of good practices that may lead to improved older adult participation in similar events and an improved process of developing apps that target older adults.
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09:00 - 10:30 | Studying Software Engineers IIJournal first papers / Technical Papers at H2 room Chair(s): Minghui Zhou Peking University | ||
09:00 20mTalk | What makes a great manager of software engineers? Journal first papers Eirini Kalliamvakou University of Victoria, Christian Bird Microsoft Research, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Andrew Begel Microsoft Research, Robert Deline , Daniel M. German | ||
09:20 20mTalk | Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study Journal first papers Wiesław Kopeć Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Bartłomiej Balcerzak , Radosław Nielek , Grzegorz Kowalik , Adam Wierzbicki , Fabio Casati Link to publication DOI | ||
09:40 20mTalk | Does Syntax Highlighting Help Programming Novices? Journal first papers | ||
10:00 20mTalk | Do programmers work at night or during weekend? Technical Papers Maëlick Claes , Mika Mäntylä University of Oulu, Miikka Kuutila , Bram Adams MCIS, École Polytechnique de Montréal Pre-print | ||
10:20 10mTalk | Q&A in groups Technical Papers |