DigiSwitch: A Device to Allow Older Adults to Monitor and Direct the Collection and Transmission of Health Information Collected at Home

Caine, Kelly; Zimmerman, Celine Y.; Schall-Zimmerman, Zachary; Hazlewood, William R.; Camp, L. Jean; Connelly, Katherine; Huber, Lesa; Shankar, K.

doi:10.1007/s10916-011-9722-1

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“…Another example is that of an assisted living facility (Caine et al 2011;Novitzky et al 2015). It provides intelligent interaction with the occupants, for instance involving automatic or user-initiated communication by means of various appliances, sensors and switches.…”

Section: Fixed Decision-making Supportmentioning

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The development of assistive dementia technology that accounts for the values of those affected by its use

Burmeister

2016

Ethics Inf Technol

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Developing technology that accounts for values has been achieved in many areas, including security, gaming, finance, engineering, and many more. The main methodological approach has been that of value sensitive design. But most of the work to date has been on the first of its three stages. The focus of this article is on advances related to its second stage, empirical investigation, and in particular the impact of contextual understanding in that stage. Although lessons can be learnt from other domains, the specific context of dementia means that there are nuances to understanding values, including justice and autonomy, that differ from other areas. The integration of value considerations in the development of assistive technology in dementia is explored in two broad categories: the traditional and ongoing need for fixed decision support, and adaptable decision support technologies. For fixed decision support the A&D Benchmark is particularly useful in design. But for adaptable technologies, that benchmark requires further development, including consideration of the values of additional stakeholders, such as the general public.

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Section: Fixed Decision-making Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

The development of assistive dementia technology that accounts for the values of those affected by its use

Burmeister

2016

Ethics Inf Technol

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“…Typically, once older adults are given a tour and allowed to interact with the technology, they are asked a series of questions to elicit their opinions on the usefulness, usability, and likelihood that they would use such a system in their own homes if available. Results from such studies allow ICT designers to refine their designs [8] and draw design principles for ICTs to support aging in place [7]. …”

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“…This 5-year project started with focus groups and interviews in a living lab [7], then deployed a suite of technologies in the homes of 6 older adult participants and their informal caregivers [7]. Participants were split into three groups: a ‘technology-only' group which received the suite of technology with no ability to control the data flows, a ‘control panel' group which in addition to the suite of technology received a control panel which allowed the older adults to control who saw different data [8], and a ‘mobile phone' group, which did not receive any home technologies but did receive mobile phones and acted as a control group.…”

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Approaches to Understanding the Impact of Technologies for Aging in Place: A Mini-Review

Connelly

Laghari

Mokhtari³

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Gerontology

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Background: There are many approaches to evaluating aging-in-place technologies. While there are standard measures for outcomes such as health and caregiver burden, which lend themselves to statistical analysis, researchers have a harder time identifying why a particular information and communication technology (ICT) intervention worked (or not). Objective: The purpose of this paper is to review a variety of methods that can help answer these deeper questions of when people will utilize an ICT for aging in place, how they use it, and most importantly why. This review is sensitive to the special context of aging in place, which necessitates an evaluation that can explore the nuances of the experiences of older adults and their caregivers with the technology in order to fully understand the potential impact of ICTs to support aging in place. Methods: The authors searched both health (PubMed) and technology (ACM Digital Library) venues, reviewing 115 relevant papers that had an emphasis on understanding the use of aging-in-place technologies. This mini-review highlights a number of popular methods used in both the health and technology fields, including qualitative methods (e.g. interviews, focus groups, contextual observations, diaries, and cultural probes) and quantitative methods (e.g. surveys, the experience sampling method, and technology logs). Results: This review highlights that a single evaluation method often is not adequate for understanding why people adopt ICTs for aging in place. The review ends with two examples of multifaceted evaluations attempting to get at these deeper issues. Conclusion: There is no proscriptive formula for evaluating the intricate nuances of technology acceptance and use in the aging-in-place context. Researchers should carefully examine a wide range of evaluation techniques to select those that will provide the richest insights for their particular project.

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“…More focused on health information, DigiSwitch [27] captures images from daily activities of older adults, allowing them to view this "information as it is collected and temporarily cease transmission of data for privacy reasons". Holzinger et al [77] collect vital signal and body position data to detect abnormalities (e.g., faints, low or high heart rate) and call an assistance center (which makes it also an alerting application).…”

Section: Applications For Carementioning

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Information Technology for Active Ageing: A Review of Theory and Practice

Parra

Silveira

Far

et al. 2014

FNT in Human–Computer Interaction

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DigiSwitch: A Device to Allow Older Adults to Monitor and Direct the Collection and Transmission of Health Information Collected at Home

Cited by 45 publications

References 20 publications

The development of assistive dementia technology that accounts for the values of those affected by its use

The development of assistive dementia technology that accounts for the values of those affected by its use

Approaches to Understanding the Impact of Technologies for Aging in Place: A Mini-Review

Information Technology for Active Ageing: A Review of Theory and Practice

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