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Smart Home Technology for the Elderly: Perceptions of Multidisciplinary Stakeholders

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Constructing Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2007)

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The “implementation” and use of smart home technology to lengthen independent living of non-instutionalized elderly have not always been flawless. The purpose of this study is to show that problems with smart home technology can be partially ascribed to differences in perception of the stakeholders involved. The perceptual worlds of caregivers, care receivers, and designers vary due to differences in background and experiences. To decrease the perceptual differences between the stakeholders, we propose an analysis of the expected and experienced effects of smart home technology for each group. For designers the effects will involve effective goals, caregivers are mainly interested in effects on workload and quality of care, while care receivers are influenced by usability effects. Making each stakeholder aware of the experienced and expected effects of the other stakeholders may broaden their perspectives and may lead to more successful implementations of smart home technology, and technology in general.

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  1. Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Hulsterweg 2-6, P.O.Box 141, 5900 AC, Venlo, the Netherlands

    Anne-mie Sponselee & Ben Schouten

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

    Don Bouwhuis

  3. iRv/Vilans, Zandbergsweg 111, 6432 CC, Hoensbroek, the Netherlands

    Charles Willems

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Sponselee, Am., Schouten, B., Bouwhuis, D., Willems, C. (2008). Smart Home Technology for the Elderly: Perceptions of Multidisciplinary Stakeholders. In: Mühlhäuser, M., Ferscha, A., Aitenbichler, E. (eds) Constructing Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2007. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85379-4_37

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