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DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Functional Changes in Older Adults: Impact on Home Technology Design
: The aging demographic being experienced by all western countries has significant impact on health care utilization as well as the ability to remain in independent living situatio...
Victor A. Hirth
UAIS
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
Toward overcoming culture, skill and situation hurdles in Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract. This paper proposes a new effective strategy for designing and implementing interactive systems overcoming culture, skill and situation hurdles in HumanComputer Interacti...
Paola Carrara, Daniela Fogli, Giuseppe Fresta, Pie...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 7 months ago
Critical perspectives on dependability: an older person's experience of assistive technology
This paper considers multiple meanings of dependability as part of a project investigating home based assistive and smart home technology for older people. It argues that because ...
Mark Blythe, Darren J. Reed, Peter C. Wright, Andr...
CSCW
2007
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Entertaining Situated Messaging at Home
Leisure computing has been traditional associated with interactive entertainment media and game playing, yet despite the penetration of computing into the home, this form of engage...
Mark Perry, Dorothy Rachovides
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Designing a technological playground: a field study of the emergence of play in household messaging
We present findings from a field study of Wayve, a situated messaging device for the home that incorporates handwriting and photography. Wayve was used by 24 households (some of w...
Siân E. Lindley, Richard H. R. Harper, Abiga...