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Design Guidelines for Micro Information Radiators to increase Seniors' Safety in Urban Space
Abstract
Senior citizens face challenges during activities in urban space. To help and motivate them pursuing outside activities, we propose a network of (micro and macro) information radiators to increase their feeling of safety. In this paper we first collect guidelines and relevant aspects for the design of micro information radiators. Then we summarize our own experiences from a project designing smart urban objects - particularly giving an overview of design guidelines for input and output interaction of micro information radiators.
... The concept and the individual parts of our system have been discussed in prior publications, specifically about the requirements analysis and the technical architecture [5], the persuasive design aspect anchored in the gamification research landscape [4], and more detailed guidance on the interaction design of small [16] and large public displays [8] as relevant to this kind of design. The following section nonetheless gives a short design overview. ...
Seniors face many challenges in their daily activities regarding mobility and accessibility. We have designed and prototyped a system of networked public displays to support them, particularly regarding outdoor pedestrian navigation. This article describes the process and results of a qualitative evaluation of this prototype system, which was conducted with seven participants, a mixture of older adults and experts on geriatric care. Based on insights gained from these interviews, we provide guidance on the design of outdoor activity support systems for seniors.
Titel des Teilvorhabens: Mensch-Technik-Interaktion mit smarten städtebaulichen Objekten: Entwicklung und Evaluation
Zuwendungsempfänger: Universität der Bundeswehr München
Förderzeitraum: 01.11.2015 – 31.10.2020
Förderkennzeichen: 16SV7443
During outside activities, elderly people encounter different challenges than young people. Those difficulties impede their motivation to pursue outside activities. To counter this problem from a human-computer interaction perspective, we propose a support system for seniors to improve their motivation and subjective safety while undertaking outside activities by coordinating smart urban objects. Drawing from an extensive empirical requirements analysis, we identify typical barriers experienced by seniors for which networked smart urban objects may provide assistance. We discuss a conceptual description of an activity support system: the system aggregates user profile data with information about the urban space to suggest possible activities, the elderly user chooses an activity and receives navigational assistance to increase their motivation and feeling of safety while undertaking the chosen activity. Finally, we discuss our approach regarding challenges such as user autonomy, privacy and real-world deployments, which need to be considered in future implementation and evaluation phases of the system.
Der urbane Raum wird zunehmend intelligenter. So können Passanten mit Druckknöpfen an Ampelanlagen spielen, um die Rotphase zu überbrücken, Informationstafeln an Bushaltestellen zeigen Verspätungen des Busses an und WLAN-Technologie erlaubt das Erfassen der Bewegung unterschiedlicher Akteure im Raum. Die Vorteile aus dieser Vernetzung, stehen jedoch älteren Personen mit kognitiven oder motorischen Einschränkungen nicht offen. Technologien in der öffentlichen Umgebung beziehen Anforderungen älterer Personen bislang nicht ein. Ältere Personen werden durch die sich rapide ändernden sozialen und technologischen Strukturen von der Teilhabe ausgegrenzt. Wir stellen unseren Ansatz Smarter Städtebaulicher Objekte vor: Gegenstände aus der städtischen Umgebung, welche mit einem digitalen Informationsraum verbunden sind. Darunter fallen u. a. Parkbänke, die jüngere Personen durch Vibration darauf auf ältere Personen mit Bedarf an Sitzplätzen hinweisen, sowie Informationstafeln, die die Aktivitäten in der Nachbarschaft nutzergerecht aufbereiten. Anhand dessen wollen wir zeigen, wie das Gewahrsein im öffentlichen Raum auf die Belange älterer Personen erhöht werden kann.
The irreversible process of demographic change, especially in Germany, leads to numerous challenges. According to this, research has to face the task to integrate the constantly ageing population into the urban and public space in such a way that there are as few barriers as possible. With the support of digitalization, so-called smart urban objects are being designed in order to do make integration, so that people and the available technology can be used most efficiently. A special ontology has been developed to meet this demand.
IoT increasingly permeates the public area, e.g., in traffic control and public transport. We propose to equip conventional urban objects with IoT technology to transform them into Smart Urban Objects (SUO's). While there exists some research exploring the potentials, specific solutions to enhance safety for the elderly outdoors are still lacking. The elderly's safety is threatened due to declining physical conditions. As a consequence, the elderly may be excluded from outdoor activities such as participating in major events. Against this backdrop, we design SUOs for adaptive indications of urban hazards, barrier-free passages and for smart reservation of seats to enhance resting possibilities. We report on our solution using Bluetooth technology for remote sensing of older pedestrians serving as input for the objects' adaptive capacities. The SUOs have been installed for test purposes on a major event in a larger German city.
An important part of older adults' social integration is their involvement in urban life outdoors. While going outdoors contributes to participation and well-being, older adults often avoid to go outdoors because of deteriorating health and individual perceptions of threats to their safe mobility. A particular perceived threat to safety and a crucial barrier to go outdoors is the perception of lacking appropriate seating possibilities. To mitigate this barrier, we introduce an adaptive park bench system as an innovative form of smart urban objects. The system of adaptive park benches seeks to ensure that each pedestrian has available an appropriate seat when necessary. Empty adaptive park benches are particularly appropriate due to an active assistance functionality for sitting down and standing up. We developed an AI based algorithm and validated its effectiveness by conducting a simulation of a use case scenario created with domain experts.
IoT technology is a key driver for building smart city infrastructure. The potentials for urban management problems requiring process control and allocation mechanisms has long been acknowledged. However, up to now the potentials of equipping urban objects with sensors, information processing capability, and actuators to enable adaptation to pedestrians' individual needs have not yet been exploited. The objective of our research is to design smart urban objects that enhance usability and safety of the urban space for pedestrians. We report on our conceptual design for an IoT platform that connects the novel smart urban object adaptive park bench with an adaptive light system to actively support pedestrians in the urban environment, in particular senior citizens with handicaps.
The paper presents the architecture of an intelligent displaying and alerting system, based on a scalable integrated communication infrastructure. The system is envisioned to offer dynamic display capabilities using the wireless ePaper technology, as well as to enable indoor location-based services such as visitor guidance and alerting through iBeacon-compatible mobile smart devices. The system will include a secure web management console, along with the software interfaces and procedures necessary for collecting and automatically displaying any relevant information and notifications. As the system is designed primarily for educational and research institutions, remote authentication will be allowed through eduroam technology. Tests regarding the performance of the used wireless ePaper Displays are performed, specifically regarding their response times, and recommendations are made based on the results.
We present a study on the use of audio-based cues to help overcome the well-known issue of display blindness, i.e. to help people become aware of situated interactive public displays. We used three different types of auditory cues based on suggestions from literature, namely spoken message, auditory icon, and random melody, and also included a no-audio condition as control. The study ran for 8 days on a university campus using an in-the-wild design, during which both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered. Results show that audio in general is good at attracting attention to the displays, and spoken message in particular also helps people understand that the display in question is interactive.
Information radiators are ubiquitous stationary installations that radiate information that is likely to improve awareness of passers-by in semi-public environments like organization floors. In this paper, we present the idea of using several kinds of information radiators for enhancing urban participation of seniors - by providing awareness for supporting the planning and execution of activities in public environments. We motivate the idea and discuss interaction design as well as HCI challenges to be addressed in future work.1
Changing life in urban areas creates challenges for people who move and also for long-term inhabitants, who have to orientate themselves in new or changing environments. ICT has the potential to support people in orientating in urban neighborhoods as well as to foster participation when it comes to shaping future life in cities. We present results from a workshop on ICT in urban areas, which show the potential to connect interactive objects in public environments and to draw from community knowledge in order to support individual people in exploring their neighborhoods. In a use case we show how orientation help can be created in accordance to each person's comfort zone within the neighborhood. We conclude discussing further challenges in HCI research with focus on urban areas.
Urban areas and demography are changing, leading to an acceleration of life pace and an ageing population at the same time. In order to ensure safe mobility in urban areas for older adults, we aim to increase awareness for own abilities, potential assistance by peers and pedestrians, as well as awareness for emerging needs of older adults by implementing smart urban objects in public space. Based on research approaches on awareness in HCI, we present an example scenario of expanding older adult's comfort zones with smart urban objects and discuss potential challenges and future work in the funded project UrbanLife+.
To give feedback on mobile devices, sound is commonly used in different ways. Much research has focused on the learnability and user performance with systems that have audio feedback. But so far, there is no standardized method to evaluate the subjective quality of auditory feedback messages. We describe a study to investigate the affective impression of short audio feedback on mobile devices and their functional connotation in three different contexts. Results show that context influences the affective impression of sounds and that there is a relation between ratings according affective quality and functional applicability. We conclude that sounds can be unobtrusive, but still convey their intended meaning in a working context as well as in a leisure time situation without being perceived as disturbing.
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