Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
Abstract
A growing social problem in the U.S., and elsewhere, is enabling older adults to continue living independently, as opposed to moving to an institutional care setting. One key part of this complex problem is providing awareness of senior adults day-to-day activities, promoting "peace of mind" for extended family members. The Digital Family Portrait (DFP) is one approach to providing peace of mind that has shown promise. To date, research on the DFP has been limited to wizard-of-oz based experiments over short periods of time. This paper describes a DFP field trial in which a private home was instrumented with sensors rather than relying on input from wizard-of-oz technology. This field trial was conducted over a period of one year between an aging parent living alone in her own home and her adult child living 50 miles distant.
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The mother reported feeling a level of support and connectedness with her son via the monitoring system even though the son lived far away.
“Moreover, with respect to social support, the mother reported feeling a level of support and connectedness with her son via the presence of the monitoring system even though the son lived quite a distance from his mother.”
From Toward a Psychological Science of Advanced Technology Design for Older Adults (2010) · cites this paper as Rowan & Mynatt, 2005
A field trial in which people were monitored with an aware home system by a family member for several months supported the findings about privacy and social support.
“These fi ndings were supported by a fi eld trial wherein people were monitored with an aware home system by a family member for several months ( Rowan & Mynatt, 2005 ).”
From Toward a Psychological Science of Advanced Technology Design for Older Adults (2010) · cites this paper as Rowan & Mynatt, 2005
In one mother-son case, both mother and son were very enthusiastic about the monitoring system and privacy concerns were minimal.
“Consider one mother -son combination.Both mother and son were very enthusiastic about the system and privacy concerns were minimal, in this context.”
From Toward a Psychological Science of Advanced Technology Design for Older Adults (2010) · cites this paper as Rowan & Mynatt, 2005
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- Authors
- Rowan, J., & Mynatt, E. D.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- ORCID
- Mynatt, Elizabeth D.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2005-04-02
- Pages
- 521-530
- OpenAlex
- W2097219193
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 79.68
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Keywords
- home sensors, aging in place, field trials, parent-child relationship
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