AgeCI: HCI and Age Diversity Samuel Silva 1 , Daniela Braga 2 , and Ant´ onio Teixeira 1,3 1 Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal 2 VoiceBox, USA 3 Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal Abstract. We present an overview of recent works in which age is an important driving factor for Human-Computer Interaction design and development. These serve as starting grounds to discuss current practices and highlight challenges that might serve as beacons for future research in the field. Keywords: age diversity, overview. 1 Introduction Age related approaches to HCI, with some notable exceptions, are nowadays strongly focused on the elderly [20] boosted by applications in areas such as am- bient assisted living [40] and, although to a lesser degree, on children. Neverthe- less, age related characteristics of different age groups [48,39] make it important that users are not just divided in two (elderly and remaining users) or three (children, adults and elderly) categories. Even when the physical and cognitive characteristics of users seem equivalent, intrinsic differences in motivation and social needs as observed, for example, between teenagers and adults [49], might pose challenges regarding which methodologies to use to include them in the design process, elicit opinions or collect data. The challenges posed to HCI by age diversity have led researchers to follow different methodologies to support design and development and assess user per- formance using different modalities, devices and user interfaces. We consider that the community might profit from an integrated view regarding how age associ- ated characteristics/differences are addressed, not necessarily coinciding with an universal design approach. This should highlight and contribute to a first level of organization of the plethora of design and development methods that can be used by researchers in order to improve their work for specific age groups. This paper is intended to present a general overview of the literature covering age-related issues and methodologies in HCI by focusing on the most recent surveys, studies, trends and challenges (mostly published after 2010) on the subject. C. Stephanidis and M. Antona (Eds.): UAHCI/HCII 2014, Part III, LNCS 8515, pp. 179–190, 2014. c  Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014