Paper Info
Title
Elderly Centered Design for Interaction - The Case of the S4S Medication Assistant.
Abstract
Several aspects of older adults’ life can benefit from recent technological developments, but success in harnessing this potential depends on careful design and accessible, easy to use products. Design and development must be centered on the elderly and adequately consider interaction. In this paper we follow this design approach and put it to the test in developing a concrete application, aimed to contribute to lower the high levels of non-adherence to medication in the elderly population. The “Medication Assistant” application was developed following an iterative method centered, from the start, on the elderly and interaction design. The method repeats short-time development cycles integrating definition of scenarios and goals, requirements engineering, design, prototyping and evaluation. Evaluation, by end-users, of the increasingly refined prototypes, is a key characteristic of the method. The evaluation results provide information related to strengths and weaknesses of the application and yield suggestions regarding changes and improvements, valuable support further development. Results regarding evaluation of the second prototype of “Medication Assistant” are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.procs.2014.02.044
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
development method,interaction,user centred,elderly evaluation,mobile applications,medication
Population,Interaction design,Engineering management,Computer science,Iterative method,Requirements engineering,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Strengths and weaknesses,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
27
1877-0509
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Flávio Ferreira1100.95
Nuno Almeida24710.10
Ana Filipa Rosa3203.40
André Oliveira4181.59
José Casimiro5112.09
Samuel S. Silva63114.23
António J. S. Teixeira715235.26