Emma Domínguez-Rué, member of the SIforAGE Partner Grup Dedal-Lit (University of Lleida), and Linda Nierling, stakeholder of SIforAGE, are the editors of the recently-published book entitled Ageing and Technology. Perspectives from the Social Sciences. The authors claim there is a need to adopt a new perspective – taking the human being, and not technology, first – as a way of becoming more sensitive to ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology. In addition, the view presented by the authors should help to adapt technologies to the people who created the need for its existence, thus contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of senior citizens.

Emma Domínguez-Rué (Ph.D.) teaches in the Department of English at the University of Lleida, Catalunya (Spain).

Linda Nierling (Ph.D.) is a researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany).

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http://www.transcript-verlag.de/en/978-3-8376-2957-6/ageing-and-technology