Home monitoring represents an appealing alternative for older adults considering out-of-home long term care and an avenue for informal caregivers and health care providers to gain decision-critical information about an older adults' health and well-being. However, privacy concerns about having 24/7 monitoring, especially video monitoring, in the home environment have been cited as a major barrier in the design of home monitoring systems. In this paper we describe the design and evaluation of "DigiSwitch", a medical system designed to allow older adults to view information as it is collected about them and temporarily cease transmission of data for privacy reasons. Results from a series of iterative user studies suggest that control over the transmission of monitoring data from the home is helpful for maintaining user privacy. The studies demonstrate that older adults are able to use the DigiSwitch system to monitor and direct the collection and transmission of health information in their homes, providing these participants with a way to simultaneously maintain privacy and benefit from home monitoring technology.

Abstract. There are significant differences between older and younger adults in terms of risk perception and risk behaviors offline. The previously unexplored existence of this dissimilitude online is the motivation for our work. What are the risk perceptions of older adults? How are these correlated with the classic dimensions of risk perception offline? Can we leverage episodic memory, particularly relevant for older adults, to increase the efficacy of risk communication? We conduct a survey based experiment with two groups: video (n=136) and text (113). We find that leveraging episodic memory using video risk communication can improve the ability of elders to avoid phishing attacks and downloading malware. The applicability of the dimensions of risk were different based not only the risk but also the mode of risk communication.

Purpose Older adults are more susceptible to fraud offline than younger adults. As they increasingly use the internet for activities including managing financial assets, this susceptibility is transferred online. Thus, there is an imminent need to communicate the risks inherent in these new technologies, especially that of data disclosure, to older adults. These risks might best be communicated by using appropriate mental models and grounding analogies in more familiar risks, e.g. physical risks. Using videos rather than text may improve comprehension as well as address other concerns of aging, e.g. attention and memory. While videos can lead to richer comprehension, multi-media communications can challenge cognitive reserves. We present the design of narrative-driven risk communication videos that leverage physical analogies to answer the following questions: (i) What are the determinants of older adults perception of online risk, specifically for responding to phishing and malware e-mails?; and (ii) What is the effect on comprehension when using videos as opposed to text? Method To investigate the determinants of older adults' perceptions of online risk, Garg and Camp investigated a nine-dimensional model of risk perception that is based on an expressed preferences. They found that not all the nine dimensions are equally relevant online. They proposed a five-dimensional model for online risks consisting of voluntariness, immediacy, control, chronic-catastrophic, and severity. These dimensions were adapted to create a survey to assess elders' determinants of risk. For example, voluntariness is redefined as, "To what extent does an older adult have a choice in being exposed to this risk? (1=Voluntary, 5= Involuntary)". Our second question, whether video is more effective than text in communicating risk, was evaluated by participant comprehension: participants' ability to identify the risk, the attack vector, the impact of risk if exploited, and strategies to avoid or mitigate the risk. We conducted pilot studies with a convenience sample of 12 older adults (8 female and 4 male). Six participants watched the videos, the other six read the textual description of the risks, and each filled out associated surveys. Results & Discussion All 12 participants rated the risk of responding to be higher than that of not responding, but not all items on the five dimensions were rated higher for responding. This indicates that not all dimensions have equal weights in the construction of perceived risk. Participants in the video group were more likely to verbalize the risk of responding or not responding, suggesting videos might be better at explaining online risks to older adults.

Throughout her life Sylvia Pankhurst was involved in a broad range of campaigns including the suffragette movement, the campaign against the First World War, the Communist movement, anti-fascism and support for the freedom of Ethiopia. One of the apparent contradictions in her shifts of emphasis took place in the course of the First World War.In 1914 Sylvia Pankhurst was a leading militant suffragette campaigning for the representation of all women in Parliamentary democracy. However, when women were granted the vote over the age of 30 in 1918, far from celebrating this as the culmination of the struggle in which she had campaigned, Sylvia was unconvinced that this measure could achieve the kind of democracy she hoped for. Instead, she championed the Bolshevik Revolution which she believed was creating a far more developed form of democracy and she asked British socialists to: consider very seriously whether our efforts should not be bent on the setting aside of this present Parliamentary system under which the peoples suffer, and the substitution of it by a local, national, and international system, built up on an occupational basis, of which the members shall be but the delegates of those who are carrying on the world's work; and shall be themselves workers, drawn [ . . . ] from the bench, the mine, the desk, the kitchen, or the nursery; and sent to voice the needs and desires of others like themselves. 1 The changes in Sylvia Pankhurst's political activities in these years even confused and frustrated her fellow activists. Helena Swanwick, who in the First World War campaigned for peace alongside Sylvia Pankhurst in the Women's International League, would later recall that Sylvia: was a very provoking colleague, owing to her habit of going her own separate way, even after she had joined others in hammering out an agreed way. There might have been give and take, and they would, perhaps, loyally carry out the agreed Sylvia Pankhurst, the First World War and the struggle for democracy Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, XX-1 | 2015

This work-in-progress reports preliminary results of an interview study (n=5) with low SES, rural patients with type 2 diabetes. The paper presents 3 themes and associated design suggestions relating to the high-prevalence of comorbidities, the importance of external support, and the different stages a patient may be in with respect to making lifestyle changes. Keywords-Type 2 diabetes; diabetes self-management practices; rural communities; qualitative research; chronic disease; low SES I.