Socio-Gerontechnology

A theoretical framework, developed by Alexander Peine and Louis Neven, that analyses aging and technology as mutually constitutive: technologies do not simply serve pre-existing aging needs, and aging is not a pre-given biological fact — the two co-produce each other through everyday practice, institutional framing, and design choices. Socio-gerontechnology is increasingly used in accessibility and critical-HCI research to interrupt deficit-based framings and to examine how design decisions shape what "aging" or "disability" is taken to mean.