Applying a software TeleCareprototype in a real old people’s

home.Fáber D. Giraldo, Juan Pablo García Giraldo,

Santiago Granada Montes,

Yonattan Pineda Olarte

System and Computer Engineering., University of Quindío Colombia

Nicolas Hine

School of Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland UK

MobileHCI 2014 Workshop Toronto Canada, September 2014

Introducing us

NicolasJuan Pablo

Santiago

YonattanFáber

Where are we?Colombia

Quindío

Agenda

• Introduction/Context

• Implemented Solution

• GUI progress

• Preliminary validation

• Conclusions

• Further works

Introduction

• The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for Colombia describesthe demographic transition, where people ≥ 60 years old are reachedaround 10% of the total of population in 2012 with an evident ageingof the population in some of the most important cities in Colombia.

• Principal difficulties for older people in Colombia:• lower educational level and illiteracy (most of them are from rural contexts).• low proportion of people having pension,• few job opportunities for older adults,• high levels of poverty among the population,• high dependency on children and elderly carers,• negative imaginary of the worth to older people in society

Context

• This preliminary research was performed in a specific old people'shome in the Quindío region of Colombia

(a very vulnerable population).

• This work is formulated around of the hypothesis that theapplicability of TeleCare prototypes in old people's home ofColombia can improve the quality of life of the older adults.

Solution

• We developed a software Telecare prototype (Java & Android) for theold people's home in order to help older adults to report a symptom,illness or need.

• Older people involved can report symptoms such as: headache, sorethroat, stomach pain and chest pain.

• These reports are immediately sent to formal carers of the olderpeople’s home and relatives of the older people.

• All the older people involved have never interacted with technologybefore (interaction level zero)

GUI Prototypes evolution

December 19th, 2013 April 12nd, 2014

GUI Prototypes evolution

April 15th, 2014 September 12nd, 2014

Preliminary validation

• Some validation procedures were performed with real patients of the old people's home since December 2013.

• Main goals of these procedures were to evaluate the interaction levelof the older adults with the software, and the adjustment of theprototype according with the issues reported by older adults, carersand family involved.

Evidences

April 12nd, 2014

Validation with tablets

• Last validations are performed with tablets, where we evidence abetter interaction of the older people with our Telecare application.

• This process is performed in the rooms of the older people’s homewhere they live, making the most natural environment for them.

• Tablets employed: Samsung Galaxy Note PRO 12.2’’

Validation with tablets

September 8th, 2014

September 12nd, 2014

Validation with tablets

September 12nd, 2014 September 12nd, 2014

Conclusions

• Particular conditions of older adults in Colombia reflects a complex scenario where any technological support must offer the greatest degree of ease as possible, due mainly to the gap between final users of older population and technology solutions.

• In this work we have reported the implementation and preliminary validation of a Telecare prototype application for a real old people's home in Colombia.

• We use principles from HCI and User-centered design to implement a software solution with a high interaction level for older adults

Further works

• More formal validations by applying specific usability test

• Validation of the interaction from formal carers and family involved (in progress)

• Data management support by datawarehouse approaches.

Thanks for yourattention

Questions?

Contact:

{fdgiraldo, jpgarciag, ypinedao, sgranadam}@uniquindio.edu.co

nhine@computing.dundee.ac.uk