{"title":"Ethical challenges in aging and technology","authors":"A. Sixsmith","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534756","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation in the use of health-related technologies may improve access to services and social supports and help older people to be independent and healthy. Despite these benefits, the use of technology may also bring with it a number of ethical challenges and it is important to see technology as part of a complex socio-technical system. This paper discusses a number interrelated human and behavioural issues that need to be considered in the design, development and implementation of AgeTech and other health-related interventions. Specifically, ideas of disruption and unpredictability highlight the ambiguous role of technology in society and its potential to further disempower individuals and groups who may already be vulnerable and marginalized. The paper concludes by outlining a number of practical directions and steps towards ensuring ethical AgeTech.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115521309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Gialelis, Maria K. Krizea, Grigoris Protopsaltis, Christos Mountzouris, Tasos Kladas, G. Theodorou, S. Karatzas
{"title":"Determining occupant's Thermal Comfort and Well-Being towards facilitating energy demand management utilizing a low-cost wearable device","authors":"J. Gialelis, Maria K. Krizea, Grigoris Protopsaltis, Christos Mountzouris, Tasos Kladas, G. Theodorou, S. Karatzas","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534747","url":null,"abstract":"The scope of this work is to provide unobtrusive means to accurately depict the thermal comfort and well-being level of the occupants making them predictable energy wise and allow pertinent personalized feedback notifications or actions towards energy demand management while preserving their corresponding preferences. Specifically, a low-cost wearable wrist device, collects occupant's physiological, motion and indoor environmental condition data using unobtrusive appropriate sensors. Then, accounting the clothing conditions and the mean radiant temperature the occupant's thermal comfort level as well as the indoor air quality is assessed on the scale provided by ANSI/ASHRAE 55-2010 Standard. Thermal comfort and indoor quality levels are critical not only for health matters but also for the productivity of the occupants since it affects humans’ efficiency and the mood as well. Being aware of the occupant's thermal comfort level as well as the indoor quality level and the outdoor conditions essential actions can be scheduled regarding the energy demand.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128424583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying User Preferences of Data Handling Using Assisting Technologies","authors":"Julia Offermann, Wiktoria Wilkowska, M. Ziefle","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3529196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3529196","url":null,"abstract":"A huge variety of (assisting) lifelogging technologies can be used to track older people's movements and behaviors allowing for early identifications of emergency situations and health-related changes. So far, research focused on specific technologies and individual factors influencing the acceptance and perception of technology usage; instead, an investigation of people's generic acceptance and perception of collecting health-related data – being necessary for a successful analysis of person-related data – is missing. Hence, this study focused on a broad sample of adults (N=1106) and their acceptance of collecting health-related data to support everyday life in older age. Using an online survey, participants evaluated perceived benefits and barriers, their intention to collect health-related data, and a trade-off between the individual privacy and health. Moreover, results revealed that individual attitudes (i.e., technical self-efficacy, technology commitment, lifelogging experience) influence the evaluation patterns significantly, while demographic and health-related factors are not decisive. The results support the understanding of the influence of user characteristics within the acceptance and perception of collecting health-related data, and enable to inform diverse stakeholders (i.e., policy, industry, academia) about user-specific requirements and needs in the context of health-related data collection.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128612478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Meliones, Greta Lami, Antonia Stouri, Georgia Mila
{"title":"The Talking Books Web Library of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece","authors":"A. Meliones, Greta Lami, Antonia Stouri, Georgia Mila","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3529205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3529205","url":null,"abstract":"The general trend regarding library services for visually impaired goes towards digital technology and electronic books to be downloaded via Internet. This paper illustrates a talking books web library for people who are blind or with low vision. It is an electronic service of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece addressing individuals who are blind or visually impaired.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126467614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carina Hauser, E. Haslinger-Baumann, Elisabeth Kupka-Klepsch, Kathrin Mühlhauser, Doris Zeidler, Franz Werner
{"title":"User-centred development of an information and documentation system in mobile care","authors":"Carina Hauser, E. Haslinger-Baumann, Elisabeth Kupka-Klepsch, Kathrin Mühlhauser, Doris Zeidler, Franz Werner","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534739","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing number of older people leads to a growing need for nursing, care, medical treatment and therapy as well as additional job requirements for health-care professionals. Currently, the time-consuming and fragmentary exchange of relevant information between the professionals involved in mobile care and the use of different documentation systems pose major challenges. The aim of the research is the user-centred development of an innovative digital system in Austria that enables continuous information provision. User requirements in the form of user stories were identified based on the data analysis of a previous qualitative user survey targeting health-care professionals, clients and health-care providers. The results demonstrate especially the need for centralised data storage and access for all persons involved in mobile care.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128125805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efforts to Improve Avatar Technology for Sign Language Synthesis","authors":"Robyn Moncrief, Shatabdi Choudhury, M. Saenz","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534783","url":null,"abstract":"A promising method for increasing Deaf accessibility is the technology of sign language synthesis, which can be used to automate the translation of spoken or written language to sign language through the manipulation of an avatar. Efforts to automatically translate spoken language to sign have lagged behind spoken-to-spoken translation. Avatars are used in various capacities for sign language display, including translation and educational tools. Though the ability of avatars to portray acceptable sign language producing believable human-like motion has improved in recent years, many still lack the naturalness and supporting motions of human motion. This paper presents current efforts being made at the DePaul University ASL Lab to improve the methods of sign synthesis using avatar technology and create believable human-like motion.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"443 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115938332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ajaya Adhikari, Edwin Wenink, J. van der Waa, Cornelis Bouter, I. Tolios, S. Raaijmakers
{"title":"Towards FAIR Explainable AI: a standardized ontology for mapping XAI solutions to use cases, explanations, and AI systems","authors":"Ajaya Adhikari, Edwin Wenink, J. van der Waa, Cornelis Bouter, I. Tolios, S. Raaijmakers","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3535693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3535693","url":null,"abstract":"Several useful taxonomies have been published that survey the eXplainable AI (XAI) research field. However, these taxonomies typically do not show the relation between XAI solutions and several use case aspects, such as the explanation goal or the task context. In order to better connect the field of XAI research with concrete use cases and user needs, we designed the ASCENT (Ai System use Case Explanation oNTology) framework, which is a new ontology and corresponding metadata standard with three complementary modules for different aspects of an XAI solution: one for aspects of AI systems, another for use case aspects, and yet another for explanation properties. The descriptions of XAI solutions in this framework include whether the XAI solution has a positive, negative, inconclusive or unresearched relation with use case elements. Descriptions in ASCENT thus emphasize the (user) evaluation of XAI solutions in order to support finding validated practices for application in industry, as well as being helpful for identifying research gaps. Describing XAI solutions according to the proposed common metadata standard is an important step towards the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) usage of XAI solutions.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129971006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conveying Procedural and Descriptive Knowledge with Augmented Reality","authors":"Clemens Hoffmann, S. Büttner, Michael Prilla","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3529213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3529213","url":null,"abstract":"Repairing or maintaining technical systems requires procedural knowledge. When dealing with complex problems, solid descriptive knowledge is also necessary to understand unexpected system states. Consequently, service technicians are taught both descriptive knowledge on product technology as well as procedural knowledge; the first in a theoretical way, the second typically in practical trainings. In the past, augmented reality (AR) training has been proposed for both aspects individually. Here we investigate initial AR training for joint theoretical and practical training. In an experiment under field conditions, this paper compares an initial AR training to conventional personal training for previously unknown repair and maintenance tasks. Our results show that the initial AR training resulted in similar outcomes for short-term and long-term memory of descriptive knowledge compared to the conventional training. Looking at the practical training part, AR outperforms conventional training regarding completion time, repair, and process quality. The results show that AR can provide an alternative to conventional training for unknown repair and maintenance tasks and thus can save financial resources, such as personnel costs (trainer) and costs for physical systems.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130744003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tooba Batool, Yves Vanrompay, A. Neven, M. Scherrenberg, Veerle Ross, P. Dendale, D. Janssens
{"title":"Design process and design evaluation of web-based visualization dashboard to monitor and support the decision-making of travel-related physical activity","authors":"Tooba Batool, Yves Vanrompay, A. Neven, M. Scherrenberg, Veerle Ross, P. Dendale, D. Janssens","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3529207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3529207","url":null,"abstract":"Patients suffering from coronary heart disease (CHD) require to attend cardiac rehabilitation to manage modifiable risk factors including physical activity (PA) to avoid the progression of the disease. However, attendance in these programs is low. Travel-related PA (TPA) monitoring via a smartphone app can provide an opportunity to assess the part of routine PA level. A digital framework consisting of a smartphone app to monitor travel behaviour and a semi-automated feedback report to show the performance of TPA was used in a pilot trial. An important component of this digital framework is a web-based visualization dashboard designed for healthcare providers to get insights into the routine TPA performance of their patients. This study aims to describe the design process and design evaluation of healthcare providers for the visualization dashboard. After designing the user interface screens of the dashboard, the prospective healthcare providers were contacted from the four hospitals in Belgium. Seven interested representative participants attended a focus group session. The session's proceedings were recorded and transcribed. A directed content analysis was used which utilizes a predetermined coding scheme. The usability of the web-based visualization dashboard's content (monitoring and enhancing TPA) was evaluated as of significant importance within and after the rehabilitation programs in the secondary prevention of CHD. TPA monitoring can be effective in motivating targeted patients who have sedentary lifestyles and do not attend rehabilitation programs. Experts particularly recommended adopting engagement strategies for the TPA monitoring and enhancing frameworks. The strategies to enhance patient engagement should be given high importance in future intervention design.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132441108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Scott, Carolin Stellmacher, Jasmin Niess, Y. Rogers
{"title":"Vicious or Virtuous Cycle? The Privacy Implications of Active Assisted Living Technologies for Older People","authors":"A. Scott, Carolin Stellmacher, Jasmin Niess, Y. Rogers","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534732","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of technologies are being developed to help older people live healthier, more independent, and safer lives, for longer. While many of these technologies are positively impacting the lives of older adults, they also have the potential to dictate specific behaviours or restrict their autonomy rather than empower them. The vulnerability theory of privacy proposes that vulnerable populations are not only more likely to be susceptible to privacy violations, but are also disproportionately affected by said violations. In this position paper, we adapt the vulnerability theory of privacy to the older adult population, and identify a further potential exacerbatory cycle. The risk of a ’slippery slope’ of privacy violation occurs when AAL technologies enable an elevated and quantified visibility of (mis)behaviour and irregular activity that could seem to justify the deployment of further AAL technology. We present ‘ratchet-wise rehabilitation’ as an alternative vision to the ‘slippery slope’ and identify research and design challenges throughout the paper.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115637680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}