kommTUi: Designing Communication for Elderly

Tangible User Interface for Social Interactions for the Elderly: A Review of Literature

“…The study design of these 21 papers did not give enough detail in terms of the elderly user involvement. Spreicer et al [44], Tellioglu et al [46], Marques et al [53], and De la Guía et al [54] did not provide much information about their participants throughout the paper. This made it difficult for us to understand more about their study design.…”

“…Most of the authors and coauthors of the papers worked within the technology field, while a few worked in art and design. Regarding methodology for design and development of the prototypes, six papers [43][44][45][46][47][48] adopted a user-centered approach which involves users in the iterative process of requirement gathering, design, development, and testing. Although other papers did not use user-centered approach, some of them did involve users to identify their requirements.…”

“…All 21 papers presented their prototypes and all but two [51,52] involved users in their evaluations. Four papers [44,46,53,54] reported that they had evaluation but did not present information about their sample. Thus combining the two papers that did not involve users in their evaluation, a total of six papers had no sample.…”

“…Although the TUI was introduced by Ishii and Ullmer [18] nearly 20 years ago, our review only managed to identify 21 relevant papers using TUI to improve the social interactions of the older adults. Three out of 21 papers [44,46,47] were on same project, kommTui. Thus the number of individual studies was even smaller.…”

“…Nevertheless, six out of 21 papers [43][44][45][46][47][48] used a usercentered approach. These studies showed that involving the elderly users at an early stage, such as gathering input, could determine more specific and precise user requirements while designing the prototype.…”