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How Are You Doing? Enabling Older Adults to Enrich Sensor Data with Subjective Input

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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding - Volume 9277

Pages 39 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24195-1_4

Published: 08 September 2015 Publication History

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Technology designed to sense behavior, often neglects to directly incorporate subjective input from elderly users. This paper presents experiences in deploying technology that considers the elderly user and their subjective input as a way to enrich sensor data systems and empower the user. For this purpose, the paper draws on: 1 Observations of shortcomings in terms of capturing objective data from sensors as experienced in long-term deployments in the homes of older adults; 2 The design and evaluation of a wide range of applications especially designed to enable older adults to give subjective input on how they are doing, including an interactive television quiz, a talking picture frame and a tangible mood board, and 3 The development and field study of one application, the 'Mood button' in particular, that was tested in real-world sensing settings to work with a commercial sensing system. In doing this, this work aims to contribute towards successful sensing deployments and tools that give more control to the elderly end-user.

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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding - Volume 9277

September 2015

157 pages

ISBN:9783319241944

Editors:
Albert Ali Salah
Computer Engineering Dept, Bogazici University, Bebek, Turkey
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Ben J.A. Kröse
HvA University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Diane J. Cook
Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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Gooch DMehta VPrice BMcCormick CBandara ABennaceur ABennasar MStuart AClare LLevine MCohen JNuseibeh Bvan den Hoven ELoke LShaer Ovan Dijk JKun A(2020)How are you feeling?Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3374920.3374922(31-43)Online publication date: 9-Feb-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3374920.3374922

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