scholarly journals Thumb performance of elderly users on smartphone touchscreen

SpringerPlus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinghong Xiong ◽  
Satoshi Muraki
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Users

scholarly journals Promotion of active ageing through interactive artificial agents in a smart environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Menezes ◽  
Rui P. Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Training System ◽  
Regular Physical Activity ◽  
List Type ◽  
Multi Agent System ◽  
Agent System ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Elderly Users

Abstract Societies in the most developed countries have witnessed a significant ageing of the population in recent decades, which increases the demand for healthcare services and caregivers. The development of technologies to help the elderly, so that they can remain active and independent for a longer time, helps to mitigate the sustainability problem posed in care services. This article follows this new trend, proposing a multi-agent system composed of a smart camera network, centralised planning agent, a virtual coach, and robotic exercise buddy, designed to promote regular physical activity habits among the elderly. The proposed system not only persuades the users to perform exercise routines, but also guides and accompanies them during exercises in order to provide effective training and engagement to the user. The different agents are combined in the system to exploit their complementary features in the quest for an effective and engaging training system. Three variants of the system, involving either a partial set of those agents or the full proposed system, were evaluated and compared through a pilot study conducted with 12 elderly users. The results demonstrate that all variants are able to guide the user in an exercise routine, but the most complete system that includes a robotic exercise buddy was the best scored by the participants. Article Highlights Proposal of a multi-agent system to help elderly adopting regular physical activity habits. A virtual coach and a robotic exercise buddy provide both guidance and companionship during the exercise. A pilot study conducted with 12 elderly users demonstrated an effective and engaging training system.

Using acoustic paralinguistic information to assess the interaction quality in speech-based systems for elderly users

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Pérez-Espinosa ◽  
Juan Martínez-Miranda ◽  
Ismael Espinosa-Curiel ◽  
Josefina Rodríguez-Jacobo ◽  
Himer Avila-George
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Quality ◽  
Paralinguistic Information ◽  
Elderly Users

Analysis of Older Users’ Perceived Requests and Opportunities with Technologies

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Feli Gonzalez ◽  
David Facal ◽  
Ana Belen Navarro ◽  
Arjan Geven ◽  
Manfred Tscheligi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
Cognitive Assistance ◽  
Older Users ◽  
Elderly Users ◽  
The Way

The HERMES Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging project proposes an integrated approach to cognitive assistance, promoting the autonomy of elderly users through pervasive technology. This work aims to describe elderly people’s opinions when they are presented scenarios developed in this project. Two focus groups were organized in Austria and Spain with a view to collecting their impressions about the way in which the technological device can cover their needs; complementarily, a second session was conducted including a quantitative questionnaire. Although some participants were reluctant to use the technology, they welcomed some functionalities of the HERMES system and they considered that using them can help them to become familiar with them. Usefulness, usability, and use of real-life information for functionalities such as cognitive games are considered to be key areas of the project. This evaluation has provided the developers of the system with meaningful information to improve it and it guarantees that the system addresses elderly people’s needs.

scholarly journals Analysis of potential drug interactions and adverse reactions to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs among the elderly

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Aparecido Maschio de Lima ◽  
Adriana Antônia da Cruz Furini ◽  
Tábata Salum Calille Atique ◽  
Patricia Di Done ◽  
Ricardo Luiz Dantas Machado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Interactions ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Drug Distribution ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Potential Drug ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Elderly Users

Abstract Objective: The aim of the present study was to analyze potential drug interactions and adverse reactions to NSAIDs in elderly users of a private drug distribution service. Method: A prospective, exploratory and descriptive study with a quantitative approach was performed. The elderly users of NSAIDs attended by the service were interviewed and their prescriptions analyzed between May and September, 2014. Analysis of drug interactions was performed through computerized databases. The post-sales analysis of adverse reactions was performed using the Adverse Drug Reaction Probability Scale. Statistical analysis was performed with the Chi-squared and Fisher's Exact tests. Results: The study evaluated 200 elderly persons, among whom women predominated (56.5%). The average age was 65 years ±10. The NSAIDs accounted for 38.7% of prescription drugs used, and included dipyrone (26.9%), nimesulide (22.8%) and ketoprofen (16.3%). A total of 8.5% of such drugs were considered inappropriate medications for the elderly. A total of 104 potential drug interactions were identified, of which 24% were considered highly clinically significant. The NSAIDs with the greatest risk of interactions were ketoprofen 46.2%, ketorolac 14.4%, nimesulide 12.5% and diclofenac 9.6%. In post-sales monitoring 30.5% of the elderly persons reported undesirable symptoms after the use of NSAIDs, with stomach discomfort the most prevalent (17%). Conclusion: The present study confirmed the importance of monitoring the use of NSAIDs among the elderly due to the increased risk of drug interactions and adverse reactions associated with age, concomitant diseases, multi- prescriptions and polypharmacy. The choice of appropriate drugs for the elderly, the reconciliation of all the medications taken by the patient, and effective pharmaceutical care are measures that can contribute to the rational and safe use of NSAIDs.

scholarly journals Resources and repertoires: Elderly online practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Olsson ◽  
Ulli Samuelsson ◽  
Dino Viscovi
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Media Repertoires ◽  
Elderly Users ◽  
Large Representative

Inspired by the theoretical notion of media repertoires, this article analyses what online repertoires Swedish senior citizens construct in everyday life. It answers two research questions: What online repertoires do elderly users have? How do elderly users’ online repertoires vary depending on their access to material, discursive and social resources? The article draws on data from a large, representative Swedish survey ( n = 1264, response rate 63%), and uses correlations and multiple regression analysis to identify and analyse online repertoires with reference to elderly users’ access to resources such as income, infrastructure, level of education and social networks. The analysis reveals a significant element of selectivity in the online repertoires of elderly users. It also shows strong connections between different Internet activities. In addition, it offers substantial evidence in support of the proposition that individuals who are resource rich have broader repertoires and higher frequency of usage than other users.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Abstraction Capabilities and Detection of Discomfort with a Newscaster Chatbot for Entertaining Elderly Users

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5515
Author(s):  
Francisco de Arriba-Pérez ◽  
Silvia García-Méndez ◽  
Francisco J. González-Castaño ◽  
Enrique Costa-Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Natural Language Generation ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
User Interest ◽  
Language Generation ◽  
Machine Learning Model ◽  
Content Support ◽  
Elderly Users ◽  
Differential Feature

We recently proposed a novel intelligent newscaster chatbot for digital inclusion. Its controlled dialogue stages (consisting of sequences of questions that are generated with hybrid Natural Language Generation techniques based on the content) support entertaining personalisation, where user interest is estimated by analysing the sentiment of his/her answers. A differential feature of our approach is its automatic and transparent monitoring of the abstraction skills of the target users. In this work we improve the chatbot by introducing enhanced monitoring metrics based on the distance of the user responses to an accurate characterisation of the news content. We then evaluate abstraction capabilities depending on user sentiment about the news and propose a Machine Learning model to detect users that experience discomfort with precision, recall, F1 and accuracy levels over 80%.

scholarly journals Identifying Frequent Health Care Users and Care Consumption Patterns: Process Mining of Emergency Medical Services Data

10.2196/27499 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. e27499
Author(s):  
Laura Maruster ◽  
Durk-Jouke van der Zee ◽  
Erik Buskens
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Frail Elderly ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Frequent Users ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Elderly Users

Background Tracing frequent users of health care services is highly relevant to policymakers and clinicians, enabling them to avoid wasting scarce resources. Data collection on frequent users from all possible health care providers may be cumbersome due to patient privacy, competition, incompatible information systems, and the efforts involved. Objective This study explored the use of a single key source, emergency medical services (EMS) records, to trace and reveal frequent users’ health care consumption patterns. Methods A retrospective study was performed analyzing EMS calls from the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands between 2012 and 2017. Process mining was applied to identify the structure of patient routings (ie, their consecutive visits to hospitals, nursing homes, and EMS). Routings are used to identify and quantify frequent users, recognizing frail elderly users as a focal group. The structure of these routes was analyzed at the patient and group levels, aiming to gain insight into regional coordination issues and workload distributions among health care providers. Results Frail elderly users aged 70 years or more represented over 50% of frequent users, making 4 or more calls per year. Over the period of observation, their annual number and the number of calls increased from 395 to 628 and 2607 to 3615, respectively. Structural analysis based on process mining revealed two categories of frail elderly users: low-complexity patients who need dialysis, radiation therapy, or hyperbaric medicine, involving a few health care providers, and high-complexity patients for whom routings appear chaotic. Conclusions This efficient approach exploits the role of EMS as the unique regional “ferryman,” while the combined use of EMS data and process mining allows for the effective and efficient tracing of frequent users’ utilization of health care services. The approach informs regional policymakers and clinicians by quantifying and detailing frequent user consumption patterns to support subsequent policy adaptations.

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