"Smart" homes for an ageing society - between care, control and networked empowerment

老龄化社会的“智能”家居——护理、控制和网络赋权之间

• 批准号: 471892882
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Nadine Marquardt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Geographisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/471892882?language=en
• 关键词: Smart; homes; ageing; society; between

The project examines so-called smart homes for the elderly. It thereby addresses the intersection of two current social megatrends - demographic change and digitization - in the space of the home. The project starts from the assumption that the home as a central space of everyday life for the elderly is currently undergoing a profound transformation through the introduction of assistive technologies. By looking at these transformation processes in detail, the project foregrounds the spatial implications of current socio-technical change. It does not consider digital technologies as passive instruments, but as active mediators of cultural meanings, social norms and behavioral change. In order to understand these processes, the project combines a series of qualitative research methods (qualitative interviews, participant observation, document analysis) and addresses three central questions: The project first asks how ideas about old age and the living situations of older people shape the development of assistive technologies for the home and how these ideas become materially inscribed in devices designed to help the elderly. The project thus looks at the development of assistive technologies as a social field that is actively involved in the socio-technical construction of age. Second, the project asks how the everyday life of the elderly is changing with the introduction of new assistive technologies in the home. Here, the project focuses on the tensions between the designers’ projected user on the one hand, and the actual living realities and needs of older people on the other. Third, the project focusses on the growing importance of home care brought forward by the digitization of care. It investigates how digital technologies change the materiality of care practices and the relationships between older people in need of care, care workers and caring relatives. The project thus contributes to research on geographies of ageing and, through the focus on smart homes, also addresses blind spots in the ongoing geographical debate on spaces of digitization.

该项目研究了所谓的老年人智能家居。因此，它解决了当前两个社会大趋势——人口变化和数字化——在家庭空间中的交叉点。该项目的出发点是，家庭作为老年人日常生活的中心空间，目前正在通过辅助技术的引入而经历深刻的转变。通过详细研究这些转变过程，该项目突出了当前社会技术变革的空间影响。它并不认为数字技术是被动的工具，而是文化意义、社会规范和行为改变的主动调解者。为了理解这些过程，该项目结合了一系列定性研究方法（定性访谈、参与观察、文件分析），并解决了三个核心问题：该项目首先询问有关老年和老年人生活状况的想法如何影响家庭辅助技术的发展，以及这些想法如何实质上铭刻在旨在帮助老年人的设备中。因此，该项目将辅助技术的发展视为积极参与时代社会技术建设的社会领域。其次，该项目询问随着新的家庭辅助技术的引入，老年人的日常生活发生了怎样的变化。在这里，该项目一方面关注设计师的预期用户，另一方面关注老年人的实际生活现实和需求之间的紧张关系。第三，该项目重点关注护理数字化带来的家庭护理日益增长的重要性。它调查了数字技术如何改变护理实践的实质性以及需要护理的老年人、护理人员和护理亲属之间的关系。因此，该项目有助于对老龄化地理的研究，并通过对智能家居的关注，还解决了正在进行的关于数字化空间的地理辩论中的盲点。