Paper Info
Title
Analysis of Older Users' Perceived Requests and Opportunities with Technologies: A Scenario-Based Assessment
Abstract
The HERMES Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging project proposes an integrated approach to cognitive assistance, promoting the autonomy of elderly users through pervasive technology. This work aims to describe elderly people's opinions when they are presented scenarios developed in this project. Two focus groups were organized in Austria and Spain with a view to collecting their impressions about the way in which the technological device can cover their needs; complementarily, a second session was conducted including a quantitative questionnaire. Although some participants were reluctant to use the technology, they welcomed some functionalities of the HERMES system and they considered that using them can help them to become familiar with them. Usefulness, usability, and use of real-life information for functionalities such as cognitive games are considered to be key areas of the project. This evaluation has provided the developers of the system with meaningful information to improve it and it guarantees that the system addresses elderly people's needs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.4018/jaci.2011010105
IJACI
Keywords
Field
DocType
pervasive technology,meaningful information,elderly user,hermes system,perceived requests,scenario-based assessment,hermes cognitive care,focus group,active aging project,elderly people,older users,real-life information,cognitive game
Pervasive technology,Computer science,Autonomy,Usability,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Cognition,Multimedia,Focus group
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
3
1
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mari Feli Gonzalez192.16
David Facal2182.73
Ana Belen Navarro310.49
Arjan Geven4839.75
Manfred Tscheligi52567570.72
Elena Urdaneta6264.51
Javier Yanguas7102.40