id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-258915-lgee3ers Liddle, Jennifer Connecting at Local Level: Exploring Opportunities for Future Design of Technology to Support Social Connections in Age-friendly Communities 2020-07-31 .txt text/plain 12517 531 44 In drawing together participants' ideas about spaces, processes and mechanisms that might address these local challenges, we conclude the paper with implications that offer scope for further exploration and consideration in terms of how technology might support the operationalisation of local people's ideas for improving face-to-face connections in age-friendly community settings. As described earlier, the interview data were coded to explore (a) opportunities to improve connections at a local level, i.e., factors that had the potential to impact negatively on people's geographically proximate social relationships in terms of quality, quantity or satisfaction; and (b) participants' engagement with technology in relation to their social lives generally. As described earlier, the interview data were coded to explore (a) opportunities to improve connections at a local level, i.e., factors that had the potential to impact negatively on people's geographically proximate social relationships in terms of quality, quantity or satisfaction; and (b) participants' engagement with technology in relation to their social lives generally. ./cache/cord-258915-lgee3ers.txt ./txt/cord-258915-lgee3ers.txt