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Exploring & designing tools to enhance falls rehabilitation in the home

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CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1233 - 1242

https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466159

Published: 27 April 2013 Publication History

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Falls are the leading cause of accidental injury-related deaths in the elderly; a fall can lead to a loss of independence, and a fear of falling. Rehabilitation programmes involving exercise have proved the most successful way to reduce the risk of falls. However, the limitations of standard care (e.g. booklets) could prevent home users from receiving the full therapeutic benefit that rehabilitation offers. Having consulted users and health experts, we developed games, and visualizations for falls rehabilitation that we believe could potentially overcome the main barriers to effective rehabilitation in the home. In this paper, we describe user studies that we carried out with older adults to evaluate the use of these visual tools versus standard care, both in the laboratory and in the home. Our main findings show that our visualizations and games were able to overcome the major limitations of standard care, and that they were usable and acceptable to the end users.

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CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2470654

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