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Are Digital Twins Becoming Our Personal (Predictive) Advisors?

‘Our Digital Mirror of Who We Were, Who We Are and Who We Will Become’

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging (HCII 2020)

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In this paper we look at the notion of a Digital Twin and what it could entail for an aging population. A Digital Twin refers to a digital replica of potential and actual physical assets (physical twin), processes, people, places, systems and devices that can be used for various purposes. Today’s evolution of smart devices, mobile application used in different domains, could be ways of nurturing a Digital Twin. Moreover, these smart device and mobile applications are often equipped with NUI’s (Natural User Interfaces), which make them more affordable for an aging population in terms of usability. In this paper we focus on the affordance and appropriation of these assistive digital technologies. We first do a literature review on related work on ‘Aging in Place’ in combination with ‘Digital Twin’ theory. Furthermore, we conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with boomers (1946–1964) 60+ and 70+, mixed gender and mixed education, but predominately higher educated boomers living in Belgium. In addition we conducted in-depth interviews with stakeholders active in a medical environment.

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  1. Department Graphical and Digital Media, Artevelde University of Applied Science, Ghent, Belgium

    Christel De Maeyer

  2. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Christel De Maeyer & Panos Markopoulos

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De Maeyer, C., Markopoulos, P. (2020). Are Digital Twins Becoming Our Personal (Predictive) Advisors?. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50249-2_19

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