What's special about aging

Light, Ann; Pedell, Sonja; Robertson, Toni; Waycott, Jenny; Bell, Jeanette; Durick, Jeannette; Leong, Tuck Wah

doi:10.1145/2886011

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“…These included: 1) beginning each workshop with an update to provide the participants with an overview of decisions and deliberation that had occurred within the design and technical meetings that took place in between workshops, 2) Inviting participants to sit in on technical meetings so they would have a chance to participate in these deliberations (an option taken up by one participant), 3) Incorporating a shared lunch into each workshop so that informal conversations about goals and decisions could be raised. While not all of these steps were particularly innovative in-and-of themselves (we note for example that the value of shared meals in participatory work has been the subject of some discussion [28,58]), we believe that in combination these steps helped to 'lift the curtain' on some hidden aspects of the decision-making process and we aim to keep exploring similar techniques in future studies.…”

Section: Involving Participants From Regional and Metropolitan Areasmentioning

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Exploring the Design of Social VR Experiences with Older Adults

Baker

Waycott

Carrasco

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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There is growing interest in technologies that allow older adults to socialise across geographic boundaries. An emerging technology in this space is social virtual reality (VR). In this paper we report on a series of participatory design workshops that involved extended in-depth collaboration with 22 older adults (aged 70-81), that aimed to understand their views on the types of social VR experiences that they saw as being of value to older adults. This process culminated in a reminiscence-based social VR concept. Our study identifies: participants' ideas about the types of social VR experiences they found appealing; the potential for social VR as a powerful reminiscence tool; how social VR might be used as a tool to challenge ageing stereotypes and promote healthy ageing. Reflecting on the design process, we discuss how the diverse participant groups and the complexities involved in mediating between designers, the technical team, and participants could inform future design work.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Design of Social VR Experiences with Older Adults

Baker

Waycott

Carrasco

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Research in computer science has overly focused on the negative effects of aging (Light et al, 2016;Vines et al, 2015a). Different application contexts have been targeted by a variety of technological systems, ranging from monitoring systems for fall prevention using wearable and ambient sensing technology (Danielsen et al, 2016), social robots for the well-being of people with dementia and mild cognitive impairments (Whelan et al, 2018) through to games for maintaining user engagement during therapy and rehabilitation (Uzor and Baillie, 2014).…”

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“…Therefore, it is crucial to collect older users' needs early in the design process and interpret them correctly. Some researchers have been approaching older adults as users who actively manage their health and well-being (Carroll et al, 2012;Light et al, 2015;Light et al, 2016;Suwa et al, 2020;Vines et al, 2015a;Yuan et al, 2018). Acknowledging the desire for active engagement in later life, some research has investigated the role of physical activity and social interaction in later life.…”

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User Requirements for Inclusive Technology for Older Adults

Jovanovic

Angeli

McNeill

et al. 2021

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Active aging technologies are increasingly designed to support an active lifestyle. However, the way in which they are designed can raise different barriers to acceptance of and use by older adults. Their designers can adopt a negative stereotype of aging. Thorough understanding of user requirements is central to this problem. This paper investigates user requirements for technologies that encourage an active lifestyle and provide older people with the means to self-manage their physical, mental, and emotional health. This requires consideration of the person and the sociotechnical context of use. We describe our work in collecting and analyzing older adults' requirements for a technology which enables an active lifestyle. The main contribution of the paper is a model of user requirements for inclusive technology for older people.

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“…'Third age is used to describe people who are either retired or approaching retirement age and remain broadly unaffected by health or mobility problems' [38]. It should be noted that we were not interested in 'old' people per se, but issues of ageing sociably, which is not associated with a tight age group (see Light et al [33] for a distinction). This also acknowledged the contingency of talking with those who come to a workshop or stop to chat in the street.…”

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The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

Light

Howland

Hamilton

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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While social isolation in an ageing population is a concern in many locations, it is greater in towns where divisive local geography and declining investment conspire against meeting places and mutual awareness. This research into the design of location-based tools to support sociality asks whether embedded digital tools that make neighbourhood activities and/or people's movements more visible have the potential to increase serendipitous encounters and deepen a sense of community cohesion. Taking to the streets of a small town to explore if digital tools might improve the situation, we used participatory and provocation methods to inspire engagement with the theme and compare design concepts for sociality. Participants showed great passion for the town and its people, but also caution about publicly revealing even basic information, because of anticipated local consequences. They preferred an indirect approach.We use these insights to analyze "place" and discuss the specifics of designing for sociality in challenging contexts.

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What's special about aging

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Exploring the Design of Social VR Experiences with Older Adults

Exploring the Design of Social VR Experiences with Older Adults

User Requirements for Inclusive Technology for Older Adults

The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

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