The photostroller: Supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world

William Gaver; Andrew Boucher; John Bowers; Mark Blythe; Nadine Jarvis; David Cameron; Tobie Kerridge; Alex Wilkie; Robert Phillips; Peter Wright

doi:10.1145/1978942.1979198

The photostroller: Supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world

William Gaver, Andrew Boucher, John Bowers, Mark Blythe, Nadine Jarvis, David Cameron, Tobie Kerridge, Alex Wilkie, Robert Phillips, Peter Wright

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Abstract

The Photostroller is a device designed for use by residents of a care home for older people. It shows a continuous slideshow of photographs retrieved from the Flickr™ image website using a set of six predefined categories modified by a tuneable degree of 'semantic drift'. In this paper, we describe the design process that led to the Photostroller, and summarise observations made during a deployment in the care home that has lasted over two months at the time of writing. We suggest that the Photostroller balances constraint with openness, and control with drift, to provide an effective resource for the ludic engagement of a diverse group of older people with each other and the world outside their home.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2011 conference proceedings and extended abstracts, Vancouver, BC, USA, May 7 - 12, 2011 ; the 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1757–1766
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450302289
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979198
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2011

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Older people
research through design
ludic engagement

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Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Bowers, J., Blythe, M., Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Kerridge, T., Wilkie, A., Phillips, R., & Wright, P. (2011). The photostroller: Supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world. In CHI 2011 conference proceedings and extended abstracts, Vancouver, BC, USA, May 7 - 12, 2011 ; the 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1757–1766). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979198

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