Paper Info
Title
Towards an Analysis Framework of Technology Habituation by Older Users.
Abstract
Smart everyday objects could support the wellbeing, independent living and social connectedness of ageing people, but their successful adoption depends upon them fitting with their skills, values and goals. Many technologies fail in this respect. Our work is aimed at designs that engage older people by building on their individual affective attachment to habituated objects and leveraging, from a participatory design perspective, the creative process through which people continuously adapt their homes and tools to their own lifestyle. We contribute a novel analytic framework based on an analysis of related research on appropriation and habituated objects. It identifies steps in appropriation from inspection to performance and habituation. We test this framework with the preliminary testing of an augmented habituated object, a messaging kettle. While only used in one home so far, its daily use has provoked many thoughts, scenarios and projections about use by friends, both practical, utopian and dystopian.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2901790.2901806
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Smart, Things, Kettle, Habituation, Analysis, Framework, Appropriation, Adoption, Acceptance, Messaging, Routines, Rituals, Older Users, Positive Ageing
Social connectedness,Appropriation,Participatory design,Kettle (landform),Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Habituation,Dystopia,Affect (psychology),Independent living
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.50
38
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessandro Soro17917.99
Margot Brereton245874.48
Paul Roe36215.56