Signification of the communication and interaction processes of the elderly residents in a long-term stay institution

Abstract

A computer environment will only change the nature of the interacting activity if it observes the changes that are taking place in the communication methods, for it must favor the cooperative work. In order to develop tools that enable the knowledge construction through interaction is necessary to know the biopsychosocial aspects and understand the releasing potential of the communicative processes that are established when the subjects interact mediated by technology. From a socio-historical conception of social interaction, we seek to fill a research space in relation to the communicative action and to the meaning of the social representations about the communication and information technologies. We analyzed the triad communication technology and aging, objects of different nature that occur when issues that involve elderly people in a biopsychosocial context are pondered. We seek to know the symbolic representations in relation to the technologies and analyze the triggered feelings and the meaning of the experiences obtained through the use of these mechanisms. We analyzed the interaction meaning within of elderly people living in a longterm stay institution. We assessed how the communicative processes collaborate with the recovery of social welfare and with the building of interpersonal relationships.