Tools Enabling Online Contributions by Older Adults

Ibarra, Francisco; Korovina, Olga; Báez, Marcos; Casati, Fabio; Marchese, Maurizio; Cernuzzi, Luca; Барышева, Галина Анзельмовна

doi:10.1109/mic.2016.20

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“…We should note that, while related to fitness applications, the above results can also inform researchers and practitioners of social applications, including collaborative applications, targeting older adults on the aspects to consider when designing social interaction mechanisms and deciding on interface metaphors. Indeed, as an ongoing work, we are expanding the virtual environment to include leisure spaces and productive spaces (volunteering), as a way to explore social interactions during purposeful activities and crowd-sourcing in virtual environments, and more importantly, to cater on the opportunities of providing tools for enabling online contributions by older adults [49].…”

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Online Group-Exercises for Older Adults of Different Physical Abilities

Báez

Ibarra

Far

et al. 2016

2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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In this paper we describe the design and validation of a virtual fitness environment aiming at keeping older adults physically and socially active. We target particularly older adults who are socially more isolated, physically less active, and with less chances of training in a gym. The virtual fitness environment, namely Gymcentral, was designed to enable and motivate older adults to follow personalised exercises from home, with a (heterogeneous) group of remote friends and under the remote supervision of a Coach. We take the training activity as an opportunity to create social interactions, by complementing training features with social instruments. Finally, we report on the feasibility and effectiveness of the virtual environment, as well as its effects on the usage and social interactions, from an intervention study in Trento, Italy. 1

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Online Group-Exercises for Older Adults of Different Physical Abilities

Báez

Ibarra

Far

et al. 2016

2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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“…From a technological standpoint, we are currently incorporating these findings in the design of tools to reduce social isolation in older adults, including virtual environments with the dual purpose of performing productive activities (crowdsourcing / volunteering) and socializing online. The latter comes from the fact that social interactions are of particular importance when providing productive activities to older adults [26], and it is one example of how the findings of this paper can be applied to collaborative systems.…”

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What Makes People Bond?: A Study on Social Interactions and Common Life Points on Facebook

Sanchiz¹,

Ibarra

Nikitina

et al. 2016

2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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In this paper we aim at understanding if and how, by analysing people's profile and historical data (such as data available on Facebook profiles and interactions, or collected explicitly) we can motivate two persons to interact and eventually create long-term bonds. We do this by exploring the relationship between connectedness, social interactions and common life points on Facebook. The results are of particular importance for the development of technology that aims at reducing social isolation for people with less chances to interact, such as older adults 1 .

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“…However, these limitations, coupled with their physical isolation, make it very difficult for older adults to find such work. Ibarra et al (2016) reviewed online tools (paid and non-paid) that enable social contributions by older adults. The tools included general-purpose volunteering services and crowd-sourcing services.…”

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Encouraging prosocial behavior from older adults through robot teleoperation: A feasibility study

Maalouly¹,

Hirano²,

Yamazaki³

et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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IntroductionIn Japan, the social climate surrounding older adults has gotten worse as a result of the spread of COVID-19 and the growing isolation of older adults who are increasingly unable to engage in prosocial behavior through work and volunteering. This is detrimental to the physical and mental well-being of older adults. The purpose of this study is to look into robot teleoperation for older adults as a viable way to deal with these issues and overcome the barriers preventing older adults from engaging in prosocial behavior.Materials and methodsWe designed and tested a remote-control approach for dialogue agents that is appropriate for older adults as well as evaluating their impressions in a real-world setting. Twelve older adults participated in experiments in two separate locations, a children's center and the city ward office, where they could remotely teleoperate a robot and have conversations with the visitors. In the city ward office, the older adults had a conversation with the visitors and gave them information and trivia quizzes about the city. In the children's center, older adults had conversations with children regarding their age, family, their likes, and dislikes. A questionnaire and interview were set up after the experiments to understand their impressions of the system and to clarify how older adults feel about certain issues regarding remote-controlled work, starting a new job, social interaction, to what extent have older adults been affected by the pandemic, how and in what ways has it affected their involvement in society, and whether teleoperating a robot can be a suitable approach to encourage prosocial behavior from them through volunteer work and social engagement.ResultsThe results show that older adults have a strong desire to engage in volunteer work, but are hampered mainly by physical isolation resulting from COVID-19 restrictions and their declining physical and mental health. Their impressions of the teleoperation system were highly positive, as they enjoyed having conversations with children through the robot. With this teleoperation system, older adults were able to remote control a robot by themselves without major issues. It made interaction simpler as conversing with children through a robot added a layer of anonymity that allowed older adults to express themselves freely without worrying about how they are perceived by others in public.DiscussionOlder adults were able to successfully engage in prosocial behavior through remote-controlling a robot. The system seems to be effective at easing the physical barriers preventing older adults from engaging in volunteer work, which have worsened since the spread of COVID-19.

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Tools Enabling Online Contributions by Older Adults

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Online Group-Exercises for Older Adults of Different Physical Abilities

Online Group-Exercises for Older Adults of Different Physical Abilities

What Makes People Bond?: A Study on Social Interactions and Common Life Points on Facebook

Encouraging prosocial behavior from older adults through robot teleoperation: A feasibility study

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