TY - GEN
T1 - Engaging older adults with depression as co-designers of assistive in-home robots
AU - Randall, Natasha
AU - Šabanović, Selma
AU - Chang, Wynnie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We used participatory design methodology to engage independently living older adults with depression and co-occurring physical illness in the design of assistive robots for their homes. Our aim was to work toward a design that can extend the amount of time they can live independently and increase their quality of life. Clinicians were also invited to contribute their ideas, as they are important advocates for using assistive technology in a clinical capacity. In this paper, we outline our strategies for engaging older adults as co-designers, noting what succeeded and what failed in our participatory design approach. We also discuss the viability of replication studies in participatory design and the need to engage other stakeholders besides older adults, such as clinicians, to provide practical robot applications.
AB - We used participatory design methodology to engage independently living older adults with depression and co-occurring physical illness in the design of assistive robots for their homes. Our aim was to work toward a design that can extend the amount of time they can live independently and increase their quality of life. Clinicians were also invited to contribute their ideas, as they are important advocates for using assistive technology in a clinical capacity. In this paper, we outline our strategies for engaging older adults as co-designers, noting what succeeded and what failed in our participatory design approach. We also discuss the viability of replication studies in participatory design and the need to engage other stakeholders besides older adults, such as clinicians, to provide practical robot applications.
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U2 - 10.1145/3240925.3240946
DO - 10.1145/3240925.3240946
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116369262
SN - 9781450364508
T3 - PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
BT - Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2018
A2 - Minsky, Noga
A2 - Osmani, Venet
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
Y2 - 21 May 2018 through 24 May 2018
ER -