Paper Info
Title
ECHOES: encouraging companionship, home organization, and entertainment in seniors
Abstract
The ECHOES project (Encouraging Companionship, Home Organization, and Entertainment in Seniors), is focused on understanding and improving aspects of companionship in senior populations aged sixty-five years and older. Individuals in this age range commonly experience the loss of close friends and life partners. Furthermore, they are at risk of suffering from feelings of loneliness and depression. The project team consulted with several experts on aging in order to better understand the target population. The team followed an iterative design process which included focus groups and field studies. Potential design possibilities were identified and a final design prototype was chosen after several rounds of usability testing. The proposed system includes "TeleTable," an interactive table-based device that offers intuitive means of arranging and organizing digital media. The TeleTable also functions in a communicative capacity, encouraging individuals to interact with each other by playing simple games, conversing verbally, and exchanging digital photos with each other. This system also includes the "Pitara," a portable device enabling the association of physical mementos and keepsakes to digital media which adds a mobility, lifetime sharing and storytelling aspect to the TeleTable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1056808.1057104
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
encouraging companionship,iterative design process,potential design possibility,final design prototype,portable device,digital photo,project team,proposed system,interactive table-based device,digital media,echoes project,home organization,companionship,iterative design,field study,interaction design,focus group,usability testing,population aging
Pitara,Population,Storytelling,Interaction design,Computer science,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Project team,Multimedia,Digital media,Loneliness
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-002-7
2
0.46
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Justin Donaldson1867.91
Joshua Evnin220.46
Sidharth Saxena320.46