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Working with the Elderly—Issues Regarding Registering Their Experience and Knowledge

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Advances in Ergonomics in Design

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The world population is aging and getting to know what they think is then important, not only for affective reasons but also because their needs and opinions, experience and knowledge accumulated during long years, are also of significant weight to our society’s productive activities. Nevertheless, many of them have specific communication needs, what makes necessary to study means of efficiently register their experience, knowledge and needs. In this work we describe our experience in developing our project “Food Design and Entrepreneurship” and our strategies of using ergonomic principles, especially during the acquisition of data and information from surveys, to have sound results.

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    http://www.heg-gastronomy.com/en/.

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    http://www.unisg.it/en/.

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    This project is being developed thanks to the support of FAPEMIG (“Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais”—Foundation for Research Support of the State of Minas Gerais—Brazil).

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    Validity derives from the latin validus which means the capacity of measuring the “real”, or the capacity of an instrument to avoid error. Reliability is defined as the capacity of an instrument of not changing its results, being used by diverse researchers or in distinct moments [7].

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    Rosângela Míriam Lemos Oliveira Mendonça & Ângela Zampier Lopes Vieira de Oliveira

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Mendonça, R.M.L.O., de Oliveira, Â.Z.L.V. (2016). Working with the Elderly—Issues Regarding Registering Their Experience and Knowledge. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 485. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41983-1_45

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