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Design for Agency, Adaptivity and Reciprocity: Reimagining AAL and Telecare Agendas

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Abstract

It goes without saying that the developed world is facing significant challenges in dealing with the increasing demands of an ageing population, especially around health and care. It is also easy to understand why technology is seen as a key enabler for meeting this challenge. Application areas such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and telecare are receiving increasing governmental, industry and research attention, taking advantage of maturing and increasingly ubiquitous wireless, mobile and sensor-based technologies. However, to date, many of these advances have been largely driven by technology-utopian visions without real understanding for how such technologies come to be situated in everyday life and healthcare practice and what their potential is for enhancing new ways of living into older age. Further, there is limited evidence of their effectiveness to date, and the problems with adoption from the patients’ perspectives suggest it is timely to reflect on these experiences and reimagine new ways of approaching AAL/telecare from a broader socio-technical perspective. To this end, we propose AAL/telecare as modular infrastructures for the home that can be adapted and repurposed, starting with personal ‘quality of life’ and social needs (supporting peer care) and progressing to monitoring, physical and medical needs (supporting formal care) as relevant for a person and as needs evolve. This extends the adoption path to supporting healthy ageing, taking notions of agency, adaptivity and social reciprocity as core principles. We illustrate this with some examples and identify some of the associated technical and methodological challenges.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.aal-europe.eu/about/objectives/

  2. 2.

    http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Longtermconditions/wholesystemdemonstrators/DH_084255

  3. 3.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/whole-system-demonstrator-programme-headline-findings-december-2011

  4. 4.

    We note that the use of language/terminology here is politically sensitive, but we also note that what is regarded as a more ‘politically correct’ term is often dependent on culture and context and that there is no universal agreement. In the end it is the attitudes, values and practices we bring as practitioners that will speak louder than words.

  5. 5.

    We recognise too that there are many different theories of ageing and that there is no universal agreement across disciplines about how to conceptualise ageing. In presenting a range of different theorists’ positions, our intention is not to advocate a particular one but rather to stimulate thinking differently about older people and to orient to more positive developmental notions of ageing.

  6. 6.

    Active Aging – a competing paradigm which suggests greater social involvement in society is always a good thing

  7. 7.

    http://www.yannriche.net/markerclock.php

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Acknowledgements

The reflections and cases included in this paper were developed out of a number of diverse project experiences and deep interactions with our peer researchers and participants for each of the authors. Whilst we could never name all of them, we thank in particular Martijn Vastenburg, Nick Guldemond, Katarzyna Wac, Anna Pohlmeyer, Oezge Subasi and Wolfgang Reitberger.

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    Geraldine Fitzpatrick

  2. TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

    Alina Huldtgren

  3. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Lone Malmborg

  4. Brighton University, Brighton, UK

    Dave Harley

  5. TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wijnand Ijsselsteijn

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Fitzpatrick, G., Huldtgren, A., Malmborg, L., Harley, D., Ijsselsteijn, W. (2015). Design for Agency, Adaptivity and Reciprocity: Reimagining AAL and Telecare Agendas. In: Wulf, V., Schmidt, K., Randall, D. (eds) Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6720-4_13

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