scholarly journals Ambient Interface Design (AID) for the Ergonomically Challenged

2011 ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Hegarty ◽  
Tom Lunney ◽  
Kevin Curran ◽  
Maurice Mulvenna
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Data Mapping ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
Efficient Selection

Mobile devices offer convenient communication capabilities and have the potential to create intermediary support for ergonomically challenged users. With the global proliferation of increasing longevity, assisting the elderly and those living with impediments through human engineering and computing technology is pivotal to biotechnological attainment. To remain independently empowered, seamless integrations through efficient affable interfaces are required to provide sedulous location-independent and appliance-sensitive media viewing for the user. The Ambient Interface Design (AID) system assists with finding personal preferences and provides a synchronisation framework, coordinating connectivity across various environmentally distributed devices via sensor data mapping. Cooperative interface communication coupled with context awareness will be abstracted to a representation that facilitates optimisation and customisation to these displays. To overcome personal challenges in the efficient selection and acquisition of online information, AID mediates between the needs of the user and the constraints of the technology to provide a singular customised encapsulation of ‘ability preference and device’ for each authenticated member. A particular emphasis is the application of a human-centered design ethos.

scholarly journals Ambient Interface Design (AID) for the Ergonomically Challenged

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Hegarty ◽  
Tom Lunney ◽  
Kevin Curran ◽  
Maurice Mulvenna
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Data Mapping ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
Efficient Selection

Mobile devices offer convenient communication capabilities and have the potential to create intermediary support for ergonomically challenged users. With the global proliferation of increasing longevity, assisting the elderly and those living with impediments through human engineering and computing technology is pivotal to biotechnological attainment. To remain independently empowered, seamless integrations through efficient affable interfaces are required to provide sedulous location-independent and appliance-sensitive media viewing for the user. The Ambient Interface Design (AID) system assists with finding personal preferences and provides a synchronisation framework, coordinating connectivity across various environmentally distributed devices via sensor data mapping. Cooperative interface communication coupled with context awareness will be abstracted to a representation that facilitates optimisation and customisation to these displays. To overcome personal challenges in the efficient selection and acquisition of online information, AID mediates between the needs of the user and the constraints of the technology to provide a singular customised encapsulation of ‘ability preference and device’ for each authenticated member. A particular emphasis is the application of a human-centered design ethos.

scholarly journals Implementation of human-centered design methods in designing application interfaces for nursing home service

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Stefanus Setyo Wibagso ◽  
◽  
Ivana Celesta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Web Application ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Home Service ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Service Application

In a nursing home, the elderly gets health services to support their daily life. These services are documented and reported periodically to elderly families. In addition to managing information about nursing services, there is other information that must also be managed properly to help the smooth operation of the nursing home. To support the information management process, reliable software is needed to have the functions and benefits that are in accordance with the needs. One of the supporting components that contribute to building good software is interface design. This study will discuss the design of nursing home service application interfaces that have fields, characteristics, and functions that are different from other fields, especially the field of special health services for the elderly. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview and insight to desktop, mobile, and web application developers regarding aspects of designing an interface that is acceptable to system users in nursing homes. This will certainly make it easier for developers to produce good and acceptable software. The design of the interface is carried out using the Human-Centered Design (HCD) method which applies a user-focused design approach so that it makes it easy to understand what their needs are. There are several stages in HCD, namely the stage of identifying and determining the context of the user (Understand and specifying the context of use), the stage of identifying user requirements (Specifying the user requirements), the stage of producing design solutions (Producing design solutions) and the stage of evaluating the design (Evaluating the design). This research produces an interactive and easy-to-use interface design because the testing process uses a prototype as a demonstration tool. The test results using the End User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) method show that 88.25% of users are satisfied with the design made and in line with the needs of users in a nursing home.

scholarly journals Perceived Efficiency Outcomes, Sources and Awareness of Online Health Information among the Elderly during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 8121
Author(s):  
Gizell Green ◽  
Riki Tesler ◽  
Cochava Sharon
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Health Information ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Safety Skills ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Information Efficiency ◽  
Online Sources

The Internet and social media are crucial platforms for health information. Factors such as the efficiency of online health information, the outcomes of seeking online health information and the awareness of reliable sources have become increasingly important for the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to examine differences between elderly individuals’ income above and below the average monthly wage in relation to their online health information efficiency and the outcomes of seeking online health information; to evaluate types of online information sources with online health information efficiency and the outcomes of seeking online health information; and to explore online health information efficiency as a mediator between health status and awareness of online sources. A cross-sectional study design was conducted with 336 elderly participants age 65 or older. The participants volunteered to complete a questionnaire. No differences were found between the two groups regarding efficiency in retrieving health information from official online health sites and Google. Perceived efficiency mediated health status and awareness of online sources. In these challenging times, it is important to provide a tailor-made education strategy plan for reliable sources of online health information for the elderly, in order to enhance their technology safety skills. It is also important to explore other mediating variables between health status and awareness of online sources.

A service-oriented context-awareness reasoning framework and its implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1114-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiufeng Cheng ◽  
Jinqing Yang ◽  
Lixin Xia
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
High Level

PurposeThis paper aims to propose an extensible, service-oriented framework for context-aware data acquisition, description, interpretation and reasoning, which facilitates the development of mobile applications that provide a context-awareness service.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the authors propose the context data reasoning framework (CDRFM) for generating service-oriented contextual information. Then they used this framework to composite mobile sensor data into low-level contextual information. Finally, the authors exploited some high-level contextual information that can be inferred from the formatted low-level contextual information using particular inference rules.FindingsThe authors take “user behavior patterns” as an exemplary context information generation schema in their experimental study. The results reveal that the optimization of service can be guided by the implicit, high-level context information inside user behavior logs. They also prove the validity of the authors’ framework.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research will add more variety of sensor data. Furthermore, to validate the effectiveness of our framework, more reasoning rules need to be performed. Therefore, the authors may implement more algorithms in the framework to acquire more comprehensive context information.Practical implicationsCDRFM expands the context-awareness framework of previous research and unifies the procedures of acquiring, describing, modeling, reasoning and discovering implicit context information for mobile service providers.Social implicationsSupport the service-oriented context-awareness function in application design and related development in commercial mobile software industry.Originality/valueExtant researches on context awareness rarely considered the generation contextual information for service providers. The CDRFM can be used to generate valuable contextual information by implementing more reasoning rules.

scholarly journals Health monitoring modular panel: Interface design and evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (Suppl. 4) ◽  
pp. 1259-1270
Author(s):  
Milica Vujovic ◽  
Milan Ristanovic ◽  
Marko Milos ◽  
Francisco Perales-López
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Residential Unit ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
Elderly Users

In this paper we present a conceptual solution of modular panel for measuring health parameters of the elderly. The conceptual solution was followed by a study that analyzed the design and evaluated interface of the system. Modular panel contains sensors, processing unit, and interface enabling data acquisition and communication between the user and the medical staff. Positioning of the panel within the residential unit was determined by the categories of actions which it should provide and functional areas of typical housing unit. Interface design is based on a specific type of users and is on the basis of the type of data that should be collected and displayed. Evaluation of interface is conducted by using two user groups, where the first is made up of people older than 60 years and represents the interest group of the study, while the second group consisted of people younger than 60 years as the control group. The collected data were analyzed and the results indicate that the simplicity of the interface suits good to the users. Elderly users need more time to conduct certain commands, but most of them understood interface completely. The limitations of the system, such as lack of information provided for the users, will be considered in the future work.

Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living and the Role of Mixed Methods in Elderly Healthcare Delivery

2017 ◽  
pp. 1307-1324
Author(s):  
Alexander Astaras ◽  
Hadas Lewy ◽  
Christopher James ◽  
Artem Katasonov ◽  
Detlef Ruschin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Intelligent Decision ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Smart Tv ◽  
Intelligent Decision Support

In this chapter the authors describe a novel approach to healthcare delivery for the elderly as adopted by USEFIL, a research project which uses unobtrusive, multi-parametric sensor data collection to support seniors. The system is based on everyday devices such as an in-mirror camera, smart TV, wrist-mountable personal communicator and a tablet computer strategically distributed around the house. It exploits sensor data fusion, intelligent decision support for carers, remote alerting, secure data communications and storage. A combined quantitative and qualitative knowledgebase was established and analysed, target groups were established among elderly prospective users and scenarios were built around each group. Use cases have been prioritised according to quantitative functional and non-functional criteria. Our research findings suggest that an unobtrusive system such as USEFIL could potentially make a significant difference in the quality of life of elderly people, improve the focus of provided healthcare and support their daily independent living activities.

Influence of ICTs on the Information Behavior of the Elderly in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Oluyinka Titilope Afolayan
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Information Behavior ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Personal Challenges

The uptake of ICTs by the elderly to fulfil their diverse information needs is ridden with unavoidable challenges militating against their full exploitation of these technologies. In view of this, this paper examined the influence of ICTs on the information behaviour of the elderly in Nigeria. The methodology adopted for this research work was purely documentary and literature search in determining the extent of the influence of ICTs on the information behaviour of the elderly in Nigeria. Specifically, the research objectives for this paper addressed the Information needs of the elderly; sources of Information frequently consulted by the elderly; types of ICTs often used by the elderly; factors challenging the elderly in meeting their information needs, seeking and use using ICTs. Findings revealed that the information needs of the elderly are diverse, differ from person to person. The elderly was equally faced with personal challenges such as old age syndromes covering anxieties, disabilities, nervousness, and lack of good eyesight that affected their ICT usage.

scholarly journals CARE: Context-awareness for elderly care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Klakegg ◽  
Kennedy Opoku Asare ◽  
Niels van Berkel ◽  
Aku Visuri ◽  
Eija Ferreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Integrated Technology ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Post Hoc

AbstractWe present CARE, a context-aware tool for nurses in nursing homes. The system utilises a sensors infrastructure to quantify the behaviour and wellbeing (e.g., activity, mood, social and nurse interactions) of elderly residents. The sensor data is offloaded, processed and analysed in the cloud, to generate daily and long-term summaries of residents’ health. These insights are then presented to nurses via an Android tablet application. We aim to create a tool that can assist nurses and increase their awareness to residents’ needs. We deployed CARE in a local nursing home for two months and evaluated the system through a post-hoc exploratory analysis and interviews with the nurses. The results indicate that CARE can reveal essential insights on the wellbeing of elderly residents and improve the care service. In the discussion, we reflect on our understanding and potential impact of future integrated technology in elderly care environments.

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