Communication Needs of Elderly at Risk of Falls and their Remote Family

Sas, Corina; Brahney, Kieran; Oechsner, Carl; Trivedi, Amish; Nomesque, Mauricio; Mughal, Zaffar; Cheverst, Keith; Clinch, Sarah; Davies, Nigel

doi:10.1145/3027063.3053274

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“…The significant costs of dementia care have also led to a growing interest in the development of technologies, from assistive ones extending independent living and aging in place [90,114] to memory technologies [41,57,91,105,122]. Much of this work leverages communication, tangible, or tracking technologies but less so wall-sized displays.…”

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Supporting Stimulation Needs in Dementia Care through Wall-Sized Displays

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Davies

Clinch

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Beside reminiscing, the increasing cognitive decline in dementia can also be addressed through sensory stimulation allowing the immediate, nonverbal engagement with the world through one's senses. Much HCI work has prioritized cognitive stimulation for reminiscing or personhood often on small screens, while less research has explored sensory stimulation like the one enabled by large displays. We describe a year-long deployment in a residential care home of a wall-sized display, and explored its domestication through 24 contextual interviews. Findings indicate strong engagement and attachment to the display which has inspired four psychosocial interventions using online generic content. We discuss the value of these findings for personhood through residents' exercise of choices, the tension between generic/personal content and its public/private use, the importance of participatory research approach to domestication, and the infrastructure-based prototype, illustrated by the DementiaWall and its generative quality.

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confidence: 99%

Supporting Stimulation Needs in Dementia Care through Wall-Sized Displays

Sas

Davies

Clinch

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…More positive attitude of older people towards technology alternatives lead to increase likelihood of adoption of these smart technology products [137,138]. Furthermore, the findings of [139] indicate the importance of addressing older people's need for autonomy and their recognition of an aesthetic design [140].…”

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A Review of Internet of Things Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living Environments

2019

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The internet of things (IoT) aims to extend the internet to real-world objects, connecting smart and sensing devices into a global network infrastructure by connecting physical and virtual objects. The IoT has the potential to increase the quality of life of inhabitants and users of intelligent ambient assisted living (AAL) environments. The paper overviews and discusses the IoT technologies and their foreseen impacts and challenges for the AAL domain. The results of this review are summarized as the IoT based gerontechnology acceptance model for the assisted living domain. The model focuses on the acceptance of new technologies by older people and underscores the need for the adoption of the IoT for the AAL domain.

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“…Older people's care network of family, friends, and health care providers would want to ensure their older loved ones are safe, healthy, and active [59][60][61]. Adult children are mainly concerned with the well-being and safety of their parents, whereas for the older adult, a key concern is their autonomy, including the autonomy to choose technology to one's own taste [62]. Notions of reciprocity and asymmetry (e.g., affection or interaction between parent-child) and autonomy and role renegotiation (e.g., provider to receiver of support) underpin the older adult's self-worth by allowing them to actively participate and contribute to the family [44].…”

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Minding the Gap: Reconciling Human and Technical Perspectives on the IoT for Healthy Ageing

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Ambe

Brereton

2017

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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There are two distinct bodies of literature on the Internet of Things, one that derives from a technical perspective, while the other comes from a human perspective. From a technical perspective, sensors can automatically detect physical activity, thus enabling elderly people to live independently, while sensors in essence check that they are active, remind them to take their pills, and so on. From a human perspective, people seek control over their lives, good health, social connection, and a sense of well-being that comes from having purpose and feeling competent in daily routines. So are technologies meant to enable users to stay in control of their lives and manage their relations and preferred routines, or do they undermine it, making elderly people feel subjects of surveillance and incompetent, disrupting their daily arrangements? And is there a middle path that we might take in design that creates innovative technologies that are aesthetic in form and function and empowering to use? In this paper, we offer a framework and examples of designs that bridge these perspectives.

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Communication Needs of Elderly at Risk of Falls and their Remote Family

Cited by 6 publications

References 38 publications

Supporting Stimulation Needs in Dementia Care through Wall-Sized Displays

Supporting Stimulation Needs in Dementia Care through Wall-Sized Displays

A Review of Internet of Things Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Minding the Gap: Reconciling Human and Technical Perspectives on the IoT for Healthy Ageing

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