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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Best Practices for Designing Electronic Healthcare Devices and Services for the Elderly
    (i-com: Vol. 15, No. 1, 2016) Wille, Matthias; Theis, Sabine; Rasche, Peter; Bröhl, Christina; Schlick, Christopher; Mertens, Alexander
    Demographic change and associated shifts in the age structure lead to major challenges in health processes. One way to address this is to increase the use of telemedicine systems and services to ensure non-local yet individualized patient care, such as in rural areas. When considering new medical technology components, we must compensate for age-related changes in perception, cognition and motor skills to achieve user-centered design and take into account psychophysical effect relationships to achieve sustainable acceptance for technology integration. This paper presents various best-practice examples for participatory investigation into influencing factors, with a focus on the different times and periods within the lifecycle of a telemedical product and associated services. In addition to giving concrete design hints derived from individual studies, the paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the paradigms used and provides recommendations for user-centric development with old and very old patients.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Cognitive Endurance for Brain Health: Challenges of Creating an Intelligent Warning System
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 29, No. 2, 2015) Hedman, Anders; Hallberg, Josef
    During the past few years, the market for apps monitoring traditional health and wellbeing parameters such as heart rate, levels of physical activity and sleep patterns has rapidly expanded. In this paper, we articulate how we are currently engineering an early warning system designed to support long-term brain health, termed cognitive endurance, based on such monitoring. It can be thought of as a rudimentary expert system. It will monitor physical and social activity, stress and sleep patterns and signal when these parameters are such that a person’s cognitive endurance might be at risk. The aim of the system is to guide the user to adopt sustainable behavioral patterns from a cognitive endurance perspective. This paper articulates (1) what we mean by cognitive endurance, (2) how cognitive endurance may be enhanced, (3) our cognitive endurance monitoring platform, (4) our approach to calculating cognitive endurance risk, (5) specific challenges related to our approach and (6) what the long term benefits might be of successively monitoring cognitive endurance.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Stretching Projection - Projection-based Visual Control and Support for Sports Exercises
    (Mensch und Computer 2022 - Tagungsband, 2022) Franke, Ingmar S.; Elze, Annika; McGinity, Matthew
    Various fitness trackers make it possible to check vital signs, count steps or measure the duration of an exercise. However, a fitness tracker does not provide information about the correct execution of a sport exercise. This is the motivation for our contribution. We introduce the concept of an interactive training environment using the example of stretching exercises in the form of a computer-based visual feedback system, which is intended to increase the efficiency and safety of a training session. We answer the question: How can such a system be designed?
  • Textdokument
    Use of Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare Context by Older Adults in Germany: Initial Results of the Tech4Age Long-Term Study
    (i-com: Vol. 16, No. 2, 2017) Mertens, Alexander; Rasche, Peter; Theis, Sabine; Bröhl, Christina; Wille, Matthias
    In 2016 the interdisciplinary research team Tech4Age started its long-term survey to evaluate the use of information and communication technology (ICT) by older adults () in Germany. This study focuses on the use of ICT devices and applications, the evaluation how these devices are operated in terms of ergonomic hand positions, the investigation of health information usage as well as technology affinity, health literacy and computer literacy. The first run of the Tech4Age long-term study was done by sending a paper-based questionnaire to 5,000 individuals older than 60 years randomly selected from the total German population and equally locally distributed within Germany. Responses were collected from N = 551 participants with a mean age of 69.17 years (SD = 5.787). The gender ratio of the sample is balanced, including 51.3% male and 48.7% female. Results provide descriptive insights into technology usage and knowledge about influencing factors. Older adults already use modern ICT on a large scale, for example to do online banking or for mobility reasons (navigation, booking tickets, etc.), but health-related ICT products and applications have been used less, mainly due to mistrust. Investigation of health information usage showed that doctors and pharmacists are the main sources older adults rely on. Two thirds of all participants were satisfied with general information they got about health. The evaluation of the ergonomic use of ICT devices revealed a common way of use, namely that a majority of older adults prefer to use their ICT devices in the case of a small display in portrait mode and in the case of larger displays in portrait as well as landscape mode. Touch input is always performed with a finger or the second hand, the one not holding the device. The article will present and discuss the results in detail.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Zoomorphic Robots and People with Disabilities
    (Mensch und Computer 2022 - Tagungsband, 2022) Helm, Melina; Carros, Felix; Schädler, Johannes; Wulf, Volker
    Although zoomorphic robots are already popular as companions in some parts of the world, like Japan, they are still a niche product in Germany and are primarily present in academia. In this study, we analyse the effects of the new version of the zoomorphic robot AIBO on people with disabilities living in residential care homes. We observed the interaction for four weeks, giving the care workers and residents complete control of the robot. We specifically looked at factors like well-being and interaction strategies. Our findings show mixed results. Whereas AIBO seems to have positive effects on some residents, e.g. reducing loneliness and enhancing personal well-being, others relate less positively to its limited functions and language restrictions. This study indicates that AIBO has the potential to be used meaningfully in real-world care contexts in Germany but needs improvement to have a fully positive impact.