The Urge for Empirically-informed Design of Social-Oriented AAL Applications – The Example of 2 AAL Projects

Alaoui, Malek; Ting, Karine Lan Hing; Lewkowicz, Myriam

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2014.02.042

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“…Similarly, Lee and colleagues (2017) remark that the older people enjoyed the workshops as they could socialize and have their voices heard. And Alaoui and colleagues (2014) mention that the participants enjoyed the opportunity to be engaged and contribute with their perspectives.…”

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The Importance of User Involvement: A Systematic Review of Involving Older Users in Technology Design

2019

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Background and Objectives There is a lack of understanding of how older adults’ involvement and participation matters in actual design practice. This systematic literature review investigates existing empirical studies involving older users during the design of technologies and explores the nature and consequences of involving older people. Research Design and Methods Our literature review is informed by the guidelines of the PRISMA statement. We examined the included studies by means of thematic content analysis to identify the nature of older users’ involvement and existing evidence on what consequences it has. Results In total, 40 empirical studies published in the period 2014–2018 are included in the review. Most empirical studies involve older people from local networks, with underlying stereotypical images and at lower levels of participation. The results reveal three main consequences of involving older users: learning, adjusted design, and an increased sense of participation. Furthermore, we found that user involvement is a structured process whose outcomes are contingent on a range of premises. Discussion and Implications Synthesizing the results, we develop the concept of user involvement and present an analytical framework. Our results have implications for researchers and policy makers, since they throw into question the widely held assumption that involving older people inevitably yields beneficial outcomes.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Importance of User Involvement: A Systematic Review of Involving Older Users in Technology Design

2019

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“…The insights that needed to be examined at that stage were: what more (other than technical and clinical validity) is needed for the BQT to succeed in being a useful tool for large-scale prevention of falls? Like for other AAL products, in order for older adults to voluntarily adopt a technology, the benefits of use of a product/service must be made clear [14]. This perception of a device as being useful will ensure that it is adopted and actually used.…”

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Examining Usage to Ensure Utility: Co-Design of a Tool for Fall Prevention

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2020

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies can play an important role in helping elderly people achieve healthy ageing and maintain their autonomy. The balance quality tester (BQT) is a device for remote assessment of balance quality for older people at risk of falling. It has been validated both from a technical and a clinical perspective. However, for the BQT to be considered as a useful tool for long-term home monitoring of people with balance impairments, two issues are at stake: ease-of-use on a regular basis and trust in the validity of the data acquisition. To ensure this utility, a usage study has been made to understand the needs and values of different stakeholders: elders at risk of falling and their entourage, as well as health professionals. One main insight was the need to redesign the BQT, so as to fit the needs concerning ease-ofuse and trust in validity of data acquisition. Using a Human-centred and Participatory Design approach, the redesigning work relates to hardware design, interaction design, interface design, and most of all to standardizing the protocol of stepping-on the BQT. This paper describes the results, i.e. the design recommendations, and discusses the collaborative and iterative design process, which allowed the successful redesign of the BQT.

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“…So, the paper is organized as follows: in Section 7.2 we present a literature review on BCI, in Section 7. 3 we explain what is the enactive perspective, in Section 7.4 we present our case study with the MindWave, in Section 7.5 we discuss the results of the case study and its implications for the design of enactive systems; and in Section 7.6 we give our concluding remarks.…”

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Investigating Natural User Interfaces (NUIs)

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O desenvolvimento desta tese configurou um trabalho árduo, intenso e recompensador. Pude mergulhar em ideias desafiadoras e brincar com vários dispositivos e tecnologiassim, brincar! Apesar de difícil, foi divertido. Tenho orgulho das amizades que construí durante esses mais de 5 anos, e do legado que esta tese significa.Portanto, em primeiro lugar, gostaria de agradecer aos meus pais, Sonia e Valter, pelo apoio incondicional. Vocês são a minha base e não há palavras para expressar a minha gratidão.Um agradecimento especial também à minha orientadora, Profa. Cecília Baranauskas. Certamente é um privilégio ser sua aluna, e é impressionante o quanto você sempre tem a ensinar.Agradeço a todos os colegas do grupo de pesquisa InterHAD com quem discuti ideias, realizei ensaios e tomei cervejas. Seu apoio e parceria contribuíram muito para o desenvolvimento desta tese. Um agradecimento especial àqueles com quem tive co-autoria; certamente, foi uma valiosa oportunidade de aprendizado.Deixo um agradecimento a todos com quem convivi nesses anos, dentro e fora do Instituto de Computação (IC) da UNICAMP. Obrigada aos membros do LIS pela amizade, aos funcionários e professores do IC pelo apoio, e aos colegas de treino do judô e do CONDS pela parceria em manter a saúde física e mental.

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The Urge for Empirically-informed Design of Social-Oriented AAL Applications – The Example of 2 AAL Projects

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

The Importance of User Involvement: A Systematic Review of Involving Older Users in Technology Design

The Importance of User Involvement: A Systematic Review of Involving Older Users in Technology Design

Examining Usage to Ensure Utility: Co-Design of a Tool for Fall Prevention

Investigating Natural User Interfaces (NUIs)

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