CHS: Small: Collaborative Research:Toolkits for Aging in Place for Older Retirees (TAIPOR)

许多老年人希望尽可能长时间地住在家里。许多基于计算机和传感器的技术正在开发和部署，以支持老化，从跌倒传感器到监控用户所有活动并向家人和护理人员提供提醒、警告和警报的复杂系统。然而，总的来说，这种技术是由工程师而不是最终用户设计的。因此，老年人对这些系统的采用和接受程度很低。该项目将从对退休成年人的研究和焦点小组开始，以确定老年人在家中真正需要的技术支持类型。接下来，该项目将创建一个易于使用的“工具包”，使老年人能够创建和定制在自己家中使用的系统。最后，该项目将制作培训材料，帮助普通人学习设计这些技术。因此，该项目将导致发展更符合老年人需求的就地养老系统，并得到更广泛的接受。此外，该项目将把所有年龄段的人聚集在一起，参与代际设计，包括一个研讨会，女童子军将与他们的祖父母合作，了解彼此的技术需求和使用工具包。这个名为TAIPOR的项目建立在个人信息学的社会技术研究的基础上，该研究吸引了服务不足的人群，让他们为量身定制的个人使用定制技术，并确定了与他们生活在一起的人对普及计算技术的采用和放弃相关的看法。TAIPOR的研究可以抽象为三个领域：(i)通过上下文定性研究确定与物联网采用和放弃相关的看法，其中老年退休人员记录了他们对就地老化技术的体验。研究人员将制定一套设计指南，并强调满足老年退休人员需求的物联网范例。（ii）设计一个工具包，由新手和老年退休人员通过最少的培训创建和定制物联网。根据设计指南，研究人员将开发一个工具箱，抽象出范例物联网的功能，使老年退休人员能够创建自己的就地老化技术。编制架空训练材料，使老年退休人员能够在有限的研究人员干预下发展自己的技术。设计研讨会作为一种让最终用户参与技术设计的方式而出现，但需要研究人员提供大量资源，并且不可扩展。调查人员将传播一套最佳实践，以指导老年退休人员（一个服务不足的群体）如何大规模赚钱。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Many older people want to live in their homes for as long as possible. Much computer and sensor-based technology is being developed and deployed to support aging in place, ranging from fall sensors to complicated systems that monitor all of a user's activities and provide reminders, warnings, and alerts to family and caregivers. However, by and large such technology has been designed by engineers rather than the end users. As a result, adoption and acceptance of these systems by older adults is low. The project will begin with studies and focus groups of retired adults to determine the kinds of technological support elders actually want in their homes. Next, the project will create an easy to use "toolkit" that will enable an elder to create and customize a system to use in her own home. Finally, the project will create training materials to help ordinary people learn to design these technologies. As a result, this project will lead to the development aging in place systems that better meet the needs of elders and find more widespread acceptance. In addition, project will bring together people of all ages to engage in intergenerational design, including a workshop where Girl Scouts will collaborate with their grandparents to learn about each others technology needs and utilize the toolkit. The project, TAIPOR, builds on sociotechnical research in personal informatics that engages underserved populations in making their own customized technologies for tailored personal use and identifies perceptions related to adoption and abandonment of pervasive computing technologies by the people who live with them. TAIPOR research can be abstracted into three areas: (i) Identify Perceptions related to Adoption and Abandonment of IoT through contextual, qualitative studies where older retirees document their experiences with aging in place technologies. Investigators will develop a set of design guidelines and highlight exemplar IoT that meet older retiree needs. (ii) Design a Toolkit to Create and Customize IoT by novice, older retirees with minimal training. Based on the design guidelines, the investigators will develop a toolkit that abstracts the functionality of the exemplar IoT to enable older retirees to create their own aging in place technologies. (iii) Develop Scaffolded Training Materials so that older retirees can develop their own technologies with limited researcher intervention. Design workshops have arisen as a way to involve the end user in the design of technologies, but require significant resources on the part of researchers and are not scaleable. The investigators will disseminate a set of best practices for how to teach older retirees, an underserved population, about making at scale.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.