TY - JOUR
T1 - User Requirements for Inclusive Technology for Older Adults
AU - Jovanović, Mlađan
AU - De Angeli, Antonella
AU - McNeill, Andrew
AU - Coventry, Lynne
N1 - Funding information: Our research was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 643644 (ACANTO: A CyberphysicAl social NeTwOrk using robot friends). We thank Mark Mushiba for creating the scenarios’ animated storyboards, all participants of the study for their help in evaluating the scenarios, and anonymous reviewers for valuable suggestions for improving the paper.
PY - 2021/12/14
Y1 - 2021/12/14
N2 - Active aging technologies are increasingly designed to support an active lifestyle. However, the way in which they are designed can raise different barriers to acceptance of and use by older adults. Their designers can adopt a negative stereotype of aging. Thorough understanding of user requirements is central to this problem. This paper investigates user requirements for technologies that encourage an active lifestyle and provide older people with the means to self-manage their physical, mental, and emotional health. This requires consideration of the person and the sociotechnical context of use. We describe our work in collecting and analyzing older adults’ requirements for a technology which enables an active lifestyle. The main contribution of the paper is a model of user requirements for inclusive technology for older people.
AB - Active aging technologies are increasingly designed to support an active lifestyle. However, the way in which they are designed can raise different barriers to acceptance of and use by older adults. Their designers can adopt a negative stereotype of aging. Thorough understanding of user requirements is central to this problem. This paper investigates user requirements for technologies that encourage an active lifestyle and provide older people with the means to self-manage their physical, mental, and emotional health. This requires consideration of the person and the sociotechnical context of use. We describe our work in collecting and analyzing older adults’ requirements for a technology which enables an active lifestyle. The main contribution of the paper is a model of user requirements for inclusive technology for older people.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106028566&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10447318.2021.1921365
DO - 10.1080/10447318.2021.1921365
M3 - Article
SN - 1044-7318
VL - 37
SP - 1947
EP - 1965
JO - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
IS - 20
ER -