The phenomenological experience of dementia and user interface development

Peterson, Carrie Beth; Mitseva, Anelia; Mihovska, Albena; Prasad, Neeli R.; Prasad, Ramjee

doi:10.1109/isabel.2009.5373697

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“…When designing user-interfaces for people with cognitive disabilities the awareness of their problems and limitations is a key issue so it is essential to keep the design as simple as possible [22]. Interface developed for Norwegian POCA consists of three frames; namely login frame, patient's frame and caregiver's frame.…”

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Designing user interfaces for elderly: A case study in applicability of thin vs. fat clients

Grguric

Benc

Dešić

et al. 2010

The 12th IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services

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One common approach in dealing with increased number of elderly is provisioning of IT based applications that strive to prolong their independent life. However, development of such applications is cumbersome and expensive. In order to simplify and ease the development of such applications, MPOWER framework has been developed. The MPOWER framework provides service based architecture and a set of predefined services that can be assembled into applications for elderly. In this article we give a brief overview of the MPOWER framework and concentrate on the issue of providing usable interfaces for the elderly. Specifically, we compare two versions of an application for the elderly, one using a thin and other a fat client. We demonstrate that although thin clients are simpler to develop, in many situations fat clients should be used as they can provide interfaces that are better accustomed to the elderly.

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Designing user interfaces for elderly: A case study in applicability of thin vs. fat clients

Grguric

Benc

Dešić

et al. 2010

The 12th IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services

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“…But only few of them have addressed usability issues of GUIs for robots or similar systems [27,22]. This is a shortcoming since, when robots use a touchscreen as input device, applications are normally accessed through the GUI.…”

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“…Indeed, improving the accessibility of Web content and GUIs for elderly users has become a critical issue over the last years [11,17]. In contrast, little work has been conducted on Web accessibility, interface and software design for elders with cognitive impairment (MCI, AD) [18][19][20][21][22][23].In the field of assistive robotics some studies have assessed acceptability and interaction modalities with elderly with cognitive impairment [24][25][26]. But only few of them have addressed usability issues of GUIs for robots or similar systems [27,22].…”

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Robot services for elderly with cognitive impairment: Testing usability of graphical user interfaces

Granata

Pino

Legouverneur

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BACKGROUND: Socially assistive robotics for elderly care is a growing field. However, although robotics has the potential to support elderly in daily tasks by offering specific services, the development of usable interfaces is still a challenge. Since several factors such as age or disease-related changes in perceptual or cognitive abilities and familiarity with computer technologies influence technology use they must be considered when designing interfaces for these users. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents findings from usability testing of two different services provided by a social assistive robot intended for elderly with cognitive impairment: a grocery shopping list and an agenda application. The main goal of this study is to identify the usability problems of the robot interface for target end-users as well as to isolate the human factors that affect the use of the technology by elderly. METHODS: Socio-demographic characteristics and computer experience were examined as factors that could have an influence on task performance. A group of 11 elderly persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment and a group of 11 cognitively healthy elderly individuals took part in this study. Performance measures (task completion time and number of errors) were collected. RESULTS: Cognitive profile, age and computer experience were found to impact task performance. Participants with cognitive impairment achieved the tasks committing more errors than cognitively healthy elderly. Instead younger participants and those with previous computer experience were faster at completing the tasks confirming previous findings in the literature. CONCLUSIONS: The overall results suggested that interfaces and contents of the services assessed were usable by older adults with cognitive impairment. However, some usability problems were identified and should be addressed to better meet the needs and capacities of target end-users. C. Granata et al. / Robot services for elderly with cognitive impairmentIn elderly individuals, cognitive impairment most commonly concerns memory, but it can affect other aspects of cognition such as attention, language, perceptual skills, orientation and problem solving. While mild cognitive deficits can interfere with the performance of instrumental activities of daily life (e.g., driving, managing finances or medication), severe deficits often lead to complete disability. Thus, older adults suffering from cognitive impairment may require varying degrees of assistance to perform daily tasks.Assistive Technology (AT) refers to technological products, services or systems used to improve functional capacity and social behavior of individuals with disabilities, including age-related cognitive or physical deficits [5]. AT for elderly with cognitive impairment serves different purposes [6]: assistance on daily tasks, communication and social interaction, management of behavioral symptoms, health monitoring, stimulation and entertainment, among others. Robotics has contributed to the development of AT for older adults with the des...

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“…To what extent People with Dementia (PwDs) can benefit from assistive applications greatly depends on the ability to accommodate the user's cognitive impairments and other needs [23,31,38,45]. This limits the use of standardized ICT applications [40,23]. Moreover, assistive applications should be appealing to their users and not be perceived as stigmatizing [31,45].…”

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Putting Dementia into Context

Vogt

Luyten

Bergh

et al. 2012

Human-Centered Software Engineering

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Abstract.People with dementia face a decline of their cognitive functions, including memory impairment and difficulty to orient in time and space. Assistive applications can ease the effects of dementia by assuming and supporting impaired functions. Context-awareness is an accepted paradigm for assistive applications. It enables interactive systems to react appropriately to situations that occur during daily routines of people with dementia. However, there currently is no recommended framework to view symptoms of dementia in terms of context and context-awareness. The aim of this paper is to inform designers in the early design stages of assistive applications how requirements and needs of people with dementia can be represented in a context-aware application. Based on a systematic literature review, we elicit which context types are linked to the needs of people with dementia and their caregivers and how they are used in existing assistive applications in dementia care. Our focus is on applications evaluated and assessed with people with dementia. We also classify these assistive applications by the offered context-aware services. We observe that these should not be limited within the realm of the local residence; context types that are valuable in-house can, to a certain extent, also be leveraged outside a local residence. We believe the proposed framework is a tool for application builders and interface designers to accomplish an informed design of systems for people with dementia.

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The phenomenological experience of dementia and user interface development

Cited by 7 publications

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Designing user interfaces for elderly: A case study in applicability of thin vs. fat clients

Designing user interfaces for elderly: A case study in applicability of thin vs. fat clients

Robot services for elderly with cognitive impairment: Testing usability of graphical user interfaces

Putting Dementia into Context

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