Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
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数字全家福实地试验：支持居家养老
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2005
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通讯作者：
Elizabeth D. Mynatt
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Jim Rowan;Elizabeth D. Mynatt
在美国和其他地方，一个日益严重的社会问题是让老年人继续独立生活，而不是搬到机构护理机构。这个复杂问题的一个关键部分是让老年人意识到他们的日常活动，促进大家庭成员的“安心”。数码全家福（DFP）是一种提供心灵平静的方法，已经显示出前景。迄今为止，对DFP的研究仅限于短期内基于wizard-of-oz的实验。本文描述了一个DFP现场试验，其中一个私人家庭配备了传感器，而不是依赖于wizard-of-oz技术的输入。这个实地试验是在一位独居的年迈父母和她住在50英里外的成年子女之间进行的，为期一年。从这个实地试验中我们发现，即使没有关键的理由让成年子女关心他的母亲，所有相关方都发现DFP存在的效用，即使是那些没有直接参与实地试验本身的家庭成员。
A growing social problem in the U.S., and elsewhere, is enabling older adults to continue living independently, as opposed to moving to an institutional care setting. One key part of this complex problem is providing awareness of senior adults day-to-day activities, promoting "peace of mind" for extended family members. The Digital Family Portrait (DFP) is one approach to providing peace of mind that has shown promise. To date, research on the DFP has been limited to wizard-of-oz based experiments over short periods of time. This paper describes a DFP field trial in which a private home was instrumented with sensors rather than relying on input from wizard-of-oz technology. This field trial was conducted over a period of one year between an aging parent living alone in her own home and her adult child living 50 miles distant. From this field trial we find that even though there was no critical reason for the adult child to be concerned about his mother, all involved parties found utility in the presence of the DFP, even those family members who were not directly involved in the field trial itself.