Senior designers: empowering seniors to design enjoyable falls rehabilitation tools

Stephen Uzor; Lynne Baillie; Dawn Skelton

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208568

Senior designers: empowering seniors to design enjoyable falls rehabilitation tools

Stephen Uzor, Lynne Baillie, Dawn Skelton

Physiotherapy

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70 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Studies have shown that functional strength and balance exercises can reduce the risk of falling in older people if they are done on a regular basis. However, the repetitive nature of these exercises; as well as the use of instructional booklets and videos for rehabilitation may discourage seniors to exercise in the home, thereby rendering such an intervention ineffective. Our work proposed that the use of multimodal games -- co-designed with seniors -- could be a way of making falls rehabilitation more enjoyable; thereby improving adherence to home exercise programmes. In this paper, we first explain the process by which we identified barriers to the users' effective interaction with current home rehabilitation tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1179-1188
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1015-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208568
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

senior designers
rehabilitation
falls in elderly
balance exercises

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Senior designers: empowering seniors to design enjoyable falls rehabilitation tools

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Falls prevention advice and visual feedback to those at risk of falling: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

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