Assistive technologies for use in the home to prolong independence

Daniel, Kathryn; Cason, Carolyn L.; Ferrell, Sherry

doi:10.1145/1579114.1579140

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“…In technology-related fields such as Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and information and communication technologies (ICT) there has also been a growing interest in solutions for the context of in-home care (e.g. (sensor) monitoring solutions [15,18,[28][29][30], self-management of health for patients [2,19,21], assistive technologies for the home [8,9,13] and coordination of care amongst caregivers [4,5,22]). However, in general, the vast majority of such research still largely focuses on technological solutions that are patient-centric, while aiming to help provide more efficient or effective care, and do not particularly prioritize the caregivers' needs and their wellbeing.…”

Section: Solutions For Caregivingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Opportunities for Supporting Informal Caregivers

Bosch

Kanis

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper highlights key opportunities for technology design for informal caregivers who provide long-term in-home care. For this purpose, a study with informal caregivers was conducted, including interviews (N=4) and online questionnaires (N=34) based on holistic analysis of supportive technologies. These investigations provide a deeper understanding of the key opportunities in the design of technologies to support the caregiver, namely (1) making caregivers better informed and more aware of existing solutions (2) increasing awareness of the caregivers' own wellness; (3) cherishing the valuable, positive moments of caregiving (e.g. by capturing precious moments) and (4) encouraging meaningful social interactions among caregivers for strengthening social ties.

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Section: Solutions For Caregivingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Opportunities for Supporting Informal Caregivers

Bosch

Kanis

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Explored approaches for helping to prolong this independence include increasing their self-sufficiency, by for example facilitating the self-management of their health (e.g. [5]) or improving their ways of interacting and communicating with others (e.g. [5], [6]).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[5]) or improving their ways of interacting and communicating with others (e.g. [5], [6]). Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and Ambient Assisted living (AAL) focus on smart (sensor) technologies for helping older adults to continue living at home independently [7].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing flexible care with a context aware system for ageing-in-place

Robben¹,

Bosch²,

Wiggers³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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Abstract-This paper describes the Care4Balance (C4B) system for better facilitating communication and task coordination between formal and informal caregivers, and older adults as care receivers. Field-tests with older adults (n=3) and user studies (n=9) were conducted to evaluate the system and the perceived usefulness of the system. A review of related work and the study findings show that (1) the perceived benefit for the older target group was very low. The main motivation for using the system was triggered by the perceived benefit for their closest informal caregivers; (2) Informal caregivers do not regularly seek help for themselves, and (3) Introducing a C4B-like system is more than solving hardware and usability issues. The study suggests that more flexibility in the organizational structure of formal care (in The Netherlands and beyond) is needed.

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“…Daniel et al (Daniel, 2009) present a discussion of using computing assisted technology in the home environments of elderly persons. When presenting this work, they raised the issue that professionals can perceive the need for additional technological devices while the elderly would not see this need.…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards designing more effective systems by understanding user experiences

Hooper

2011

SIGWEB Newsl.

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This thesis is about social technologies, user experiences and the problems of creative design. It is motivated by a desire to give people who are offline the access to social technologies that is currently provided via the web. There exist technologicallyoriented approaches to solving this problem, but their focus on technology comes at a cost of neglecting the experiential aspects which motivate the work. This focus can result in systems which are functional but unappealing to (or even unusable by) their target audiences.After describing the motivation for the work, this thesis explains the state of the art and presents an exemplar system built with a technological focus. This thesis then presents Teasing Apart, Piecing Together (TAPT), a Software Engineering design process developed to address this gap in the field of software design. TAPT enables the understanding of user experiences and scaffolds the redesign of these for new contexts.After explaining the TAPT process and how it was built, a three-phase mixed methods evaluation is described. This consists of a large-scale comparative evaluation, an expert review of the outputs of that evaluation and case studies grounded in industrial and academic practice. The results of these evaluations show that TAPT, which can be used in an agile manner, provides a strong analytical framework for understanding experiences and supports the redesign of experiences in new contexts. iv v Contents

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Assistive technologies for use in the home to prolong independence

Abstract: In this paper, we describe applications of computing assisted technology to home environments of elderly persons.

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Design Opportunities for Supporting Informal Caregivers

Design Opportunities for Supporting Informal Caregivers

Managing flexible care with a context aware system for ageing-in-place

Towards designing more effective systems by understanding user experiences

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