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Design Opportunities for Supporting Elderly in India in Managing their Health and Fitness Post-COVID-19

Rao, Pallavi, Joshi, Anirudha·2020·IndiaHCI '20: Proceedings of the 11th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
DOI 10.1145/3429290.3429294
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The percentage of elderly population in India has been increasing in recent years and so have been lifestyle-related conditions such as cardiovascular diseases. In order to live an active and healthy life, it is important for elderly to manage their routine health and fitness activities such as exercising, following nutrition and diet etc. This need has become pressing after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Though there are many technology artefacts designed to motivate and help elderly people live a healthy lifestyle, adoption of such artefacts remains low for this population. In this paper, we present findings from interviews with 15 elderly people related to their needs and preferences about health and fitness, and their attitudes and knowledge about using technology to support these. Our main finding was that though there is an increase in technology usage by the elderly, much of it is restricted to communication and content consumption and not towards managing health and fitness. After the interview, we demonstrated selected applications and devices to the participants in order to understand their perceptions on existing technology in the market in managing their health and fitness. Based on participants’ perceptions towards technology and their needs related to routine health and fitness, we highlight some design opportunities including smart trackers, wearable bands, localized food and recipe app, language-based personalization and setting up “tech clinics” to help elderly to m…

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Authors
Rao, P., & Joshi, A.
Affiliations
  • Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, India
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IN)
ORCID
Joshi, Anirudha
Venue
IndiaHCI '20: Proceedings of the 11th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Publisher
ACM
Published
2020-11-05
Pages
34-41
DOI
10.1145/3429290.3429294
OpenAlex
W3115772397
Cited by
16
References
0
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2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4
FWCI
5.60
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conference paper
Language
en
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closed
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Keywords
older adults, health and fitness, post-COVID-19, technology adoption, wearable devices, cardiovascular disease, India

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