Designing Systems for Health Promotion and Autonomy in Older Adults

  • Authors:
  • Helena Lindgren;Ingeborg Nilsson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden SE-901 87;Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Unit for Occupational Therapy, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden SE-901 87

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The inclusion and autonomy of older people in the society where large parts of the life is organized with computer and Internet use as means is addressed in an ongoing project in the rehabilitation and health domains. Part from investigating the potentials of using ICT for rehabilitation of older people with limited or no computer skills, the aim for the project is to develop methods and tools for the purpose, and also for the interaction design domain where systems are developed for older people. The resulting methods are used for informing the design of the system in an iterative process.