Designing a smartpen reminder system for older adults

  • Authors:
  • Julie R. Williamson;Marilyn McGee-Lennon;Euan Freeman;Stephen Brewster

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Designing interactive systems for older adults often means designing with older adults from the earliest stages of development. This paper describes the co-design of a smartpen and paper calendar-based reminder system for the home. The design sessions involved older adults and used experience prototypes [1]. We completed these co-design sessions with older adults in order to explore the possibility of exploiting paper-based calendars for multimodal reminders systems using a smartpen. The initial results demonstrate successful interaction techniques that make a strong link between paper interaction and scheduling reminders, such as using smartpen annotations and using the location of written reminders within a paper diary to schedule digital reminders. The results also describe important physical aspects of paper diaries as discussed by older adults, such as daily/weekly layouts and binding.