Co-Designing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Environments: Unravelling the Situated Context of Informal Dementia Care
Joint Authors
Hwang, Amy S.
Truong, Khai N.
Cameron, Jill I.
Lindqvist, Eva
Nygård, Louise
Mihailidis, Alex
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-06-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Ambient assisted living (AAL) aims to help older persons “age-in-place” and manage everyday activities using intelligent and pervasive computing technology.
AAL research, however, has yet to explore how AAL might support or collaborate with informal care partners (ICPs), such as relatives and friends, who play important roles in the lives and care of persons with dementia (PwDs).
In a multiphase codesign process with six (6) ICPs, we envisioned how AAL could be situated to complement their care.
We used our codesigned “caregiver interface” artefacts as triggers to facilitate envisioning of AAL support and unpack the situated, idiosyncratic context within which AAL aims to assist.
Our findings suggest that AAL should be designed to support ICPs in fashioning “do-it-yourself” solutions that complement tacitly improvised care strategies and enable them to try, observe, and adapt to solutions over time.
In this way, an ICP could decide which activities to entrust to AAL support, when (i.e., scheduled or spontaneous) and how a system should provide support (i.e., using personalized prompts based on care experience), and when adaptations to system support are needed (i.e., based alerting patterns and queried reports).
Future longitudinal work employing participatory, design-oriented methods with care dyads is encouraged.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hwang, Amy S.& Truong, Khai N.& Cameron, Jill I.& Lindqvist, Eva& Nygård, Louise& Mihailidis, Alex. 2015. Co-Designing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Environments: Unravelling the Situated Context of Informal Dementia Care. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1056506
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hwang, Amy S.…[et al.]. Co-Designing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Environments: Unravelling the Situated Context of Informal Dementia Care. BioMed Research International No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1056506
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hwang, Amy S.& Truong, Khai N.& Cameron, Jill I.& Lindqvist, Eva& Nygård, Louise& Mihailidis, Alex. Co-Designing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Environments: Unravelling the Situated Context of Informal Dementia Care. BioMed Research International. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1056506
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1056506