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Dr. Sakari Taipale, a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Social Informatics, University of Ljubljana, whose primary position is at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has written a book Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families. The book illustrates how everyday family life gets digitalized in three European countries. It looks into the relationships between different generations from the technology use perspective in Finland, Italy and Slovenia. The Slovenian data was gathered with help of the student and Associete Professor Vesna Dolničar at FDV.

Kaja Smole Orehek, assist. prof. Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, assist. prof. Andraž Petrovčič, PhD, assoc. prof. Vesna Dolničar, PhD (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics), and assoc. prof. Matjaž Debevc, PhD, and assist. prof. Ines Kožuh, PhD (University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engeneering and Computer Science) are co-authors of a scientific article, titled »Psychological outcomes of eCare technologies use for informal carers: A scoping study« and is available in Gerontechnology Journal.

Gregor Čehovin, assoc. prof. Katja Lozar Manfreda (Centre for Social Informatics) and prof. Michael Bosnjak (ZPID - Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, University of Trier) coauthored a scientific article, which is titled “Meta-Analyses in Survey Methodology: A Systematic Review” (in press) and is currently available in advance access format from Public Opinion Quarterly.

Members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI), Vesna Dolničar, PhD, Andraž Petrovčič, PhD, Tomaž Burnik and Mojca Šetinc are authors of the new scientific article published in International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. In the article, authors presented the results of the randomized crossover experiment involving 50 older smartphone users, aged 60 years and above which was guided by the principles of summative usability testing.

A new paper from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) published in the Telecommunications Policy journal has found that at least two types of barriers are of significant importance for understanding engagement of internet non-user in proxy internet use.

iha Matjašič, Vasja Vehovar, PhD and Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI) at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, published an article entitled »Web Survey Paradata on Response Time Outliers: A Systematic Literature Review« in the scientific journal Metodološki zvezki.

Darja Grošelj, PhD, member of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI) at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, has published a chapter entitled Digital Divides, Usability, and Social Inclusion: Evidence From the Field of E-Services in the United Kingdom in a monograph Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-Enabled Services. The chapter was co-authored by Bianca C. Reisdorf, PhD.

Members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI), Andraž Petrovčič, PhD and Vesna Dolničar, PhD, co-authored four original scientific articles, published in three reputable journals (Computers in human behavior, International journal of human-computer interaction and Telematics and informatics) in 2017 and 2018, and one chapter in a monograph published by Routledge in 2018. Among the co-authors of the contributions are also CSI members Darja Grošelj, PhD, and Sakari Taipale, PhD.

Katja Lozar Manfred, PhD is co-author of the article "Mode comparison study on willingness to buy and willingness to pay for organic foods: paper-and-pencil versus computerized questionnaire", published in the Electronic Commerce Research journal.

In the past year the CSI members published seven scientific articles and two chapters in one monograph.