What is it about?
This paper is about how blind or low vision older adults acquire smartphones, and how they might get stuck trying to learn the smartphone amidst other concurrent life transitions such as aging or becoming blind in later life. People can get stuck in liminality, unable to make progress on their transitions.
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Why is it important?
It's important to consider people's life transitions when studying technology adoption, especially multiple life transitions, since it can significantly affect technology use and acquisition.
Perspectives
Intersecting Liminality can be a useful lens to think about how a research participant can be experiencing stuckness in their lives due to technology and other life transitions.
Isabela Figueira
University of California, Irvine
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This page is a summary of: Intersecting Liminality: Acquiring a Smartphone as a Blind or Low Vision Older Adult, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3663548.3675622.
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