CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Personalized mobile health monitoring for elderly
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Future mobile health systems: designing personal mobile applications to assist self diagnosis
BCS-HCI '08 Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 2
A stage-based model of personal informatics systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Design for more: an ambient perspective on diabetes
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Understanding my data, myself: supporting self-reflection with ubicomp technologies
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Rehabilitation exercise feedback on Android platform
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Wireless Health
Mobile phone-based health application for women: a Singapore study
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies
Senior designers: empowering seniors to design enjoyable falls rehabilitation tools
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cheque mates: participatory design of digital payments with eighty somethings
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Engaging older people using participatory design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ShutEye: encouraging awareness of healthy sleep recommendations with a mobile, peripheral display
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile applications to support dietary change: highlighting the importance of evaluation context
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
WalkMinder: encouraging an active lifestyle using mobile phone interruptions
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Post-development Perspective on mHealth -- An Implementation Initiative in Malawi
HICSS '13 Proceedings of the 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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Older adults are increasingly savvy consumers of smartphone-based health solutions and information. These technologies may enable older adults to age-in-place more successfully. However, many app creators fail to do needs assessments of their end-users. To rectify this issue, we involved older adults (aged 65+) in the beginning stages of designing a mobile health and wellness application. We conducted a participatory design study, where 5 groups of older adults created 5 designs. Four groups identified at least 1 health metric not currently offered in either the iPhone app store or the Google Play store. At the end of the sessions we administered a questionnaire to determine what health topics participants would like to track via smartphone or tablet. The designs included 13 health topics that were not on the questionnaire. Seventeen of eighteen participants expressed interest in tracking health metrics using a smartphone/tablet despite having little experience with these devices. This shows that older adults have unique ideas that are not being considered by current technology designers. We conclude with recommendations for future development, and propose continuing to involve to older adults in participatory design.