Multi-modal input devices for active and healthy ageing

Cogerino, Chiara; Rosso, Giovanni; Bosi, Ilaria; Frisiello, Antonella; Bazzani, Marco

doi:10.23919/softcom.2017.8115562

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“…One of the most common false friends that we found under the category of generalisations and assumptions about ageing people is the representation of older adults as a homogenous group with a natural decline in cognitive and physical frailty issues [15,49], or the selection of the target audience using a demographic identification of older adults as 65+, resulting in groups of participants where numerous and very different cohorts are investigated as a whole unique group [39,48].…”

Section: Addressing Ageism In Design Research Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the category of considering ageing people as an estranged group of people, we found that the most common false friends made the false assumption that all older adults are a group of people with unique characteristics [18,35,36], and perpetuated the ingroup/outgroup dynamic between the researchers and their older age participants [15,29,30].…”

Section: Addressing Ageism In Design Research Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the category of certain actions should not be done by ageing people, some of the false friends we found included the use of a paternalistic tone, or surprise when older adults performed behaviours that are considered perfectly normal for other age groups [18]. Some of them also presented the idea that with age there is an inevitable decline that occurs, and that certain handicaps and impairments emerge [1,15,29,30,36,46]. As mentioned earlier, while such assumptions are true in some cases, they are by no means universal.…”

Section: Addressing Ageism In Design Research Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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Improving the Language of Designing for Ageing

Comincioli

Chirico

Masoodian

2021

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

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In response to an increasingly ageing world population, the World Health Organization has recently proposed a new framework -called Healthy Ageing -to better cater to older adults' life needs and desires. This framework calls for transdisciplinary approaches to answer the challenges and opportunities posed by an ageing society. Following this framework, it is argued that the first step to accomplishing the goals of Healthy Ageing is to address the existing biases and stereotypes in the language used for addressing ageing issues. In this paper, we propose a series of linguistic guidelines that can help improve the lexicon used to talk about ageing in design research and practice, by countering many subconscious ageist biases and stereotypes. Ageism, especially in its implicit form, is a pervasive negative force that can affect not only design practitioners and researchers but also older adults, who often use ageist language to describe themselves. The proposed guidelines would also help the "false friends" of ageing people, who may be using apparently innocuous words, terminology, and remarks to refer to ageing, without perhaps realising the underlying ageist attitudes and stereotypes hidden in their used language. Overall, we aim to foster a change in design researchers' and practitioners' perspective on ageing, by paving the way for a transdisciplinary discourse on designing for ageing, which could then be further expanded and explored to eliminate ageism in design.

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Section: Addressing Ageism In Design Research Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Addressing Ageism In Design Research Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Addressing Ageism In Design Research Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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Improving the Language of Designing for Ageing

Comincioli

Chirico

Masoodian

2021

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

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“…Research by [17] combine voice commands, non-verbal behaviours, and gestures in their work. The result shows that natural interaction is more required if compared to remote control based on smartphones.…”

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“…The author in [18] provides a review and analysis of multimodal navigation solutions aimed at people with visual impairments. Both [17,18] shows that it is important to understand how UI is suitable for the elderly. Thus, in this paper, a comparative study in Unimodal and Multimodal interactions for Digital TV Remote Control Mobile Application among the Elderly will be discussed.…”

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A Comparative Study of Unimodal and Multimodal Interactions for Digital TV Remote Control Mobile Application among Elderly

Ismail¹,

Majid²,

Wahab³

et al. 2021

IJACSA

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A research was conducted to study user interactions design for the TV remote control applications that are preferable among the elderly. Now-a-days smart home concept is widely accepted around the globe. Many applications were developed based on smart home concepts, such as smart remote-control applications for TVs and air conditioners. These applications were helpful in our daily life. However, the elderly tends not to use these applications because of the complexity of the processes and interaction design that is unfriendly. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine which interaction design is preferable for the elderly, enhancing the elderly experience in using the TV remote control application besides encouraging them to use one in daily life and keep up with new technologies. In this paper, the two types of new interaction designs -a touch-based only (unimodal) interaction and multimodal interaction prototypes and an existing TV Remote Control application were compared by conducting usability testing of these three applications on the elderly. Three parameters were considered to compare these three interaction designs: task completion time, error rate, and satisfaction. Also, using usability testing's data collection, statistical analysis was conducted to find out which type of interaction is preferable by the elderly. Ten elderlies participated in the usability testing carried out. The results show a significant difference in these three interactions designs regarding task completion time and satisfaction, but not error rate. After considering usability testing and analyses conducted, the elderly prefers a unimodal interaction design in the TV Remote Control application. Nevertheless, the unimodal interaction was not the typical "tapping buttons" user interface in existing applications. Instead, the favourable interaction design was the one that involved swiping gestures to replace several features that were implemented using buttons on existing TV remote control applications.

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