Next Steps for User Integration in ICT for Aging Well

Alina Huldtgren, Holger Klapperich, Cordula Endter

2022

Abstract

In the last decade user-centered and participatory design have become central approaches for the design of technology in the context of ageing well. They promise a better fit of system requirements to user needs and, eventually, a higher user acceptance of the end-product. In Germany funding programs explicitly ask for the integration of users and user studies in real life contexts. They also started to fund accompanying research on how technical projects implement user-centered methods. Given our own experience and research on user-centered design from both an inside perspective as designers and developers as well as an outside perspective as ethnographic researchers, we examine the current practice of user integration critically in this paper and provide a list of crucial aspects including reflexivity, reciprocity, and empowerment that should be the focus of the research on user-centered approaches for ICT design in healthcare in the coming years.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huldtgren A., Klapperich H. and Endter C. (2022). Next Steps for User Integration in ICT for Aging Well. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-566-1, pages 291-298. DOI: 10.5220/0011072700003188

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe22,
author={Alina Huldtgren and Holger Klapperich and Cordula Endter},
title={Next Steps for User Integration in ICT for Aging Well},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2022},
pages={291-298},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011072700003188},
isbn={978-989-758-566-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - Next Steps for User Integration in ICT for Aging Well
SN - 978-989-758-566-1
AU - Huldtgren A.
AU - Klapperich H.
AU - Endter C.
PY - 2022
SP - 291
EP - 298
DO - 10.5220/0011072700003188