TY - GEN
T1 - Intertwining implicit and explicit awareness of wellbeing to support peace of mind and connectedness
AU - Dadlani Mahtani, Pavan
AU - Markopoulos, P.
AU - Aarts, E.H.L.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - An awareness system was designed to provide peace of mind and a sense of connectedness to adults who care for an elderly parent living alone. Our empirical research, including a field trial of six months, confirms the potential of awareness systems to support both generations suggesting that future research should examine, firstly, how to convey long-term trends regarding the wellbeing of the elderly and, secondly, how to intertwine the communication of awareness information with expressive forms of communication. We discuss implications of our studies for the design of ambient intelligent systems supporting awareness between elderly and their adult children.
AB - An awareness system was designed to provide peace of mind and a sense of connectedness to adults who care for an elderly parent living alone. Our empirical research, including a field trial of six months, confirms the potential of awareness systems to support both generations suggesting that future research should examine, firstly, how to convey long-term trends regarding the wellbeing of the elderly and, secondly, how to intertwine the communication of awareness information with expressive forms of communication. We discuss implications of our studies for the design of ambient intelligent systems supporting awareness between elderly and their adult children.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-05408-2_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-05408-2_19
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-05407-5
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 153
EP - 158
BT - Proceedings of Ambient Intelligence, European Conference - AmI2009, Salzburg, Austria
A2 - Tschlegi, M.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - conference; AmI2009, Salzburg, Austria; 2009-11-18; 2009-11-21
Y2 - 18 November 2009 through 21 November 2009
ER -