Community Building among Older Adults in a Digital Game Environment

Robyn Schell, David Kaufman

2017

Abstract

This research study describes the social connections made by a group of older adults participating in a city wide Wii bowling tournament. Our results showed that participant’s experienced an increased level of social connectedness with not only those who played with them weekly but others where they lived, their friends and family members outside of the places where they lived. Overall, the participants found that playing Wii bowling in a tournament setting contributed to the expansion of their existing network and deepened relationships in the players’ community by extending the level of social connectedness both within the game environment and beyond the boundaries of the game space.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Schell R. and Kaufman D. (2017). Community Building among Older Adults in a Digital Game Environment . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-240-0, pages 233-239. DOI: 10.5220/0006253202330239

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu17,
author={Robyn Schell and David Kaufman},
title={Community Building among Older Adults in a Digital Game Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2017},
pages={233-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006253202330239},
isbn={978-989-758-240-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Community Building among Older Adults in a Digital Game Environment
SN - 978-989-758-240-0
AU - Schell R.
AU - Kaufman D.
PY - 2017
SP - 233
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0006253202330239