ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I dedicate my work presented here to my beloved
mother, whom I miss so very much, and also to my dad whose continuing
intellectual curiosity and practical creativeness is admirable. (I miss you Eileen)
I
would very much like to thank each of the volunteers who participated in the
study - and who shall remain anonymous. Many thanks to Michelle
Hannon, Manager of the Terenure Enterprise Centre and to the Active
Senior IT Society group. I would also like to express my appreciation to those
who contributed their thoughts on the design of the website, so a big thanks
goes to Emma, RoisÃn, Shawnagh and Dillon.
A further
thanks to my beautiful loving daughter Shawnagh and her dad for providing the
authentic Italian voice-overs used in the learning activities
throughout the iterative process of this research. And a special
thanks to my friend Ciara.