Abstract
This article presents the first results about the perception of 33 elderly people about interaction tools in a digital ambient environment. The evaluation of this study is based on the filling of a short questionnaire, and interviews after a presentation of the different possible technologies and the use of a digital automated living lab, centred on a life scenario, by volunteers. The first results show a significant interest of the elderly in the voice interaction mode, in comparison with tactile interaction or switches, as well as a good opinion of the technological tools presented, in the context of a potential future use, for their health, better autonomy and well-being.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Chappell, N.L., Cooke, H.A.: Age related disabilities - aging and quality of life. In: Stone, JH, Blouin, M (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation (2010). http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/encyclopedia/en/article/189/
Sun, H., De Florio, V., Gui, N., Blondia, C.: The missing ones: key ingredients towards effective ambient assisted living sytems. J. Ambient Intell. Smart Environ. Arch. 2(2), 109–120 (2010)
Coughlan, T., Mackley, K.L., Brown, M., Martindale, S., Schlögl, S., Mallaband, B., et al.: Current issues and future directions in methods for studying technology in the home. PsychNology J. 11(2), 159–184 (2013)
Bierhoff, I., van Berlo, A., Abascal, J. et al.: Chapter 3. Smart home environment. Towards an inclusive future: impact and wider potential of information and communication technologies. In: Roe, P.R.W. (ed.), pp.110–156 (2007)
Coughlin, J., D’Ambrosio, L., Reimer, B., Pratt, M.: Older adult perceptions of smart home technologies: implications for research, policy & market innovations in healthcare. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. In: 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, EMBS 2007, pp. 1810–1815 (2007)
Curry, R., Trejo-Tinoco, M., Wardle, D.: The Use of Information and Communication Technology to Support Independent Living for Older and Disabled People. Department of Health, London (2003)
Schlögl, S., Chollet, G., Garschall, Tscheligi, M.M., Legouverneur, G.: Exploring voice user interfaces for seniors. In: 6th Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related To Assistive Environments, Rhodes Greece (2013)
Vacher, M., Portet, F., Rossato, S., Aman, F., Golanski, F., Dugheanu, R.: Speech-based interaction in an AAL-context. Gerontechnology 11(2), 310–316 (2012)
Findlater, L., Froehlich, J.; Fattal, K., Wobbrock, J. O.; Dastyar, T.: Age - related differences in performance with touchscreens compared to traditional mouse input. In: CHI 2013, pp. 1–4 (2013) ISBN 9781450318990, S
Zhou, J., Rau, P.-L.P., Salvendy, G.: Use and Design of Handheld Computers for Older Adults: A Review and Appraisal. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Interact. 28(12), 799–826 (2012)
Vigouroux, N., Rumeau, P., Boudet, B., Vella, F., Salvodelli, M.: Wellfar-e-link®: true life lab testing of a homecare communication tool. Non-pharmacological therapies in dementia, Nova science publishers 3(2), 133–142 (2015)
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P.: Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology. Palgrave MacMillan, New York (2015)
Goffman, E.: The interaction order. Am. Sociol. Rev. 48, 1–17 (1983)
Corbin, J., Strauss, A.L.: Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for developing Grounded Theory, 4th edn. San Jose State University, Sage (2015)
Campo, E., Daran, X., Redon, L.: Une maison intelligente au carrefour des sciences technologiques et des sciences humaines. In: 2nd International Conference sur l’accessibilité et les systèmes de suppléance aux personnes en situation de handicap; Paris, France, pp. 33–42 (2011)
Le Guilly, T., Olsen, P., Ravn, A.P., Rosenkilde, J.B., Skou, A.: HomePort: middleware for heterogeneous home automation networks. In: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), pp. 627–633 (2013)
Jin, Z.X., Plocher, T., Kiff, L.: Touch screen user interfaces for older adults: button size and spacing. In: Stephanidis, C. (ed.) HCI 2007. LNCS, vol. 4554, pp. 933–941. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Pearson, K.: On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen from random sampling. Philos. Mag. Series 5 50(302), 157–175 (1990)
Acknowledgments
This work is partially funded by the MSH-T of Toulouse and AG2R La Mondiale Insurance group.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bougeois, E. et al. (2016). Post-test Perceptions of Digital Tools by the Elderly in an Ambient Environment. In: Chang, C., Chiari, L., Cao, Y., Jin, H., Mokhtari, M., Aloulou, H. (eds) Inclusive Smart Cities and Digital Health. ICOST 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9677. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39601-9_32
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39601-9_32
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-39600-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-39601-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)