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Georgia Tech’s Aware Home

Georgia Tech’s Aware Home. “Aware” home technologies. Provide the home with the intelligence to support: Activities of Daily Living bathing, toileting, eating Instrumental Activities of Daily Living managing medications, maintaining the house, ensuring good nutrition

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Georgia Tech’s Aware Home

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  1. Georgia Tech’s Aware Home

  2. “Aware” home technologies • Provide the home with the intelligence to support: • Activities of Daily Living • bathing, toileting, eating • Instrumental Activities of Daily Living • managing medications, maintaining the house, ensuring good nutrition • Enhanced Activities of Daily Living • social communication, leisure activities

  3. What can an Aware Home do? • Recognize crisis • Accident, fire, stove left on • Support everyday cognition • Medical monitoring & rehabilitation • Memory support • Provide awareness of daily and long-term trends • Improve connections with friends & family

  4. Sample Aware Home Projects Living Memory Box Technology “Coach” dejaVu Memory Mirror Digital Family Portrait

  5. Needs Analysis • Loss of original community • Increasing geographic distance • Extended family privy only to sporadic information • Information to support peace of mind • Health • Environment • Relationships • Activities • Events

  6. Idea • Support “keeping an eye out” • Basis for “back story” to encourage communication

  7. Design Goals • Support “low level” awareness of well being • Depict trends over time • Respect privacy • Aesthetically pleasing • Emotionally appropriate, including for “negative” information

  8. Digital Portrait Examples Time Bands

  9. Digital Portrait Examples Categories Events Health Activity Relationships

  10. User-Centric Design • Focus groups & needs analysis • Design • Implement • Small field study • Revise • Repeat N times • Large-scale field study

  11. New Goals • Reduce complexity • Interface “layers” for less common display needs • Gender sensitivity – support male users • “80% design”

  12. Digital Family Portrait Field Study • Measure actual acceptance and attitudes within context of use. • Do impressions of “awareness” and “connectedness” change during deployment? • Older woman and adult son • Over one hour drive distance • 3+ months sensor data Mynatt & Rowan, 2004

  13. Awareness and Connectedness • Joe’s “awareness” appears to have increased as anticipated. Validated by interviews. • Marge’s “connectedness” varied dramatically but interview provide further insights. • Joe’s “connectedness” appears to have increased

  14. Marge’s attitude • “I don’t feel imposed upon, Or spied upon or anything.” • “I would say that I feel more comfortable knowing that he knows that I’m moving around.”

  15. Marge’s attitude • “But… if I’m feeling lonesome, I think, oh well, Joe knows and so then I don’t feel so lonesome.”

  16. Marge’s attitude • “I wish it had been available when my mother was living and I lived in all these other towns while she was back in Illinois. It would have been nice because she lived alone for 25 years and went down hill over that period of time. It would have been nice to know that she was up and around and moving but… the telephone got a lot of use.”

  17. Unexpected uses • When Marge was away for 3 weeks Joe used the DFP to discover when she had arrived home… (the sensors began firing) avoiding the need for phone tag to determine when he should call to find out about her trip.

  18. Déjà Vu Displays • Goal: recall of recent actions • Support short-term memory in fact of interruptions, multi-tasking • Idea: • Make continuous video record • On demand, system displays key frames from last few minutes of activity

  19. Wizard of Oz Study: Questionnaire Results

  20. Support for Functional Independence • Will be accomplished through at least: • Understanding the older adult as a whole person including sensory, motor, and cognitive capabilities • Considering the older adult in a broad context as part of a larger social unit • Evaluating older adults in relation to their environment • Developing user-centered advanced technologies • Understanding acceptance and adoption issues

  21. Conclusions • Understanding value/benefits • Understanding possible stigma • Understanding possible privacy concerns • Understand usability • Design for Older Adults

  22. A Human Factors Based Design Primer Part I: Fundamentals of Aging and Design Part II: Design Guidelines Part III: Exemplar Applications For more information about our research contact us: www.prism.gatech.edu/~wr43/hf_aging Wendy Rogers email: wr43@mail.gatech.edu Dan Fisk email: af7@mail.gatech.edu CRC Press: 1-800-272-7737

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