Designing Acceptable Assisted Living Services for Elderly Users

Playful persuasion to support older adults’ social and physical activities

“…We will not create completely new activities, such as the DanceAlong solution (Keyani et al, 2005), or games such as the Age Invaders (Khoo et al, 2008). Instead we will examine opportunities to combine persuasive solutions for existing practices, an approach that has been found to contribute to technology acceptance (Vastenburg et al, 2008). We are interested in creating playful persuasive solutions that will create opportunities for older adults to engage in social and physical activities.…”

“…To what extend might playful persuasion work? How to design such a solution so that it relates to existing living patterns (Vastenburg et al, 2008), how to do this in a care home?…”

Deep Design for Ambient Intelligence: Toward Acceptable Appliances for Higher Quality of Life of the Elderly

“…Various immediate emotions take place in the phase, such as anxiety of the unknown, lack of concentration on one hand and excited curiosity or wish to adhere to positive recommendation on the other hand. According to Vastenburg et al [18], for elderlies the direct anticipated short-term emotional benefit of a technology must be strong and immediately clear to outweigh anticipated short-term cost in terms of both price and also e.g. effort necessary to master complex interface.…”

“…[27] Design guidelines: Designers should focus on relationships which already exist first rather than building new [3]. Vastenburg et al [18] recommend to leverage relations instead of supplanting them and similarly Neustaedter et al [28] suggest to not replace existing awareness-gathering techniques, but augment them. Sadly, elderlies often have unmet their communication needs [15].…”

Towards evolutionary ambient assisted living systems

“…This variation poses significant problems engineering AAL hardware artefacts and software services to support them. Such solutions may well be inherently complex; however, it is essential that this complexity be transparent to the elderly as their perception of complexity is a key barrier to their acceptance of technologies (Vastenburg et al, 2008). Interestingly, the elderly are not hostile to technology per se, but they can be inclined to think its use is beyond their capabilities (Giuliani et al, 2005).…”