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

摘要

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.