Symposium on Challenges and Experiences in Designing for an Ageing Society. Reflecting on Concepts of Age(ing) and Communication Practices Markus Garschall, Theo Hamm, Dominik Hornung, Claudia Müller, Katja Neureiter, Marén Schorch, and Lex van Velsen Description of the Theme Practice- and user-oriented design approaches, e.g., user centred design (UCD) or participatory design (PD), have built a canon for IT projects aiming at product development for the ageing society. However, there seem to be still many blind spots, which are simply overlooked or taken-for-granted, when reflecting on IT design projects from either a bird’s eye or micro perspective. This symposium is devoted to creating a space for reflections on projects from both perspectives in two separate tracks. M. Garschall AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Innovation Systems Department, Business Unit Technology Experience, Vienna, Austria e-mail: markus.garschall@ait.ac.at T. Hamm • D. Hornung • C. Müller IT for the Ageing Society, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany e-mail: theodor.hamm@uni-siegen.de; dominik.hornung@uni-siegen.de; claudia.mueller@uni-siegen.de K. Neureiter Center for Human Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg, Austria e-mail: katja.neureiter@sbg.ac.at M. Schorch Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany e-mail: maren.schorch@uni-siegen.de L. van Velsen Roessingh Research and Development, Telemedicine Cluster, Enschede, The Netherlands e-mail: l.vanvelsen@rrd.nl © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 A. De Angeli et al. (eds.), COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23–27 May 2016, Trento, Italy, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6 327