Summary of Ben’s paper.
Ben’s paper “Empowering Older Adult Crafters to Electronically Enhance Artifacts for Health” presents an idea of helping older adults to improve their health by combining their crafting skills with technology. Older adults who are 65 years or older were recruited from Bloomington area and were asked to fill out a survey. Those older adults taught researchers about knitting and crafting whereas researchers taught them the skills related to small electronics. Main contribution of this research is that it helped the researchers to closely identify the impact of technology in older adults. In my opinion this project is important because most old people are unable to completely take care of themselves and according to the data provided by cms, “Per person personal health care spending for the 65 and older population was $18,988 in 2012, approximately 3 times the spending per working-age person ($6,632)” which is quiet a lot. With around 45 million elderly population in USA, huge amount of money can be saved if we come up with a better approach to encourage older people to stay healthy. reference : Ben Jalen, Katie Siek”Empowering Older Adult Crafters to Electronically Enhance Artifacts for Health”
Citation Tree:
Article :
Katie A. Siek , Yvonne Rogers , Kay H. Connelly, Fat finger worries: how older and younger users physically interact with PDAs.
Backward citation:
- Kinsella, K., Velkoff, V.A.: An aging world: 2001. Technical report, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, and U.S. Census Bureau (2001).
- Carmien, S., Gorman, A.: Creating distributed support systems to enhance the quality of life for people with cognitive disabilities. In: UbiHealth 2003. (2003).
- Helal, S., Giraldo, C., Kaddoura, Y., Lee, C.: Smart phone based cognitive assistant. In: UbiHealth 2003. (2003).
- Coroama, V., Rothenbacher, F.: The chatty environment – providing everyday independence to the visually impaired. In: UbiHealth 2003. (2003).
- Czaja, S.J.: Computer technology and the older adult. In Helander, M., Landauer, T., Prabhu, P., eds.: Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. 2nd edn. Elsevier Science, B.V. (1997) 797-812.
Forward citations:
- Tzuwen Chang , Neng-Hao Yu , Sung-Sheng Tsai , Mike Y. Chen , Yi-Ping Hung, Clip-on gadgets: expandable tactile controls for multi-touch devices, Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion, September 21-24, 2012, San Francisco, California, USA
- Sunjun Kim , Geehyuk Lee, Restorable backspace, Adjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 07-10, 2012, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Saeed Afshari , Andrei Popleteev , Roderick McCall , Thomas Engel, Magnetic interaction with devices: a pilot study on mobile gaming, Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational, October 26-30, 2014, Helsinki, Finland
- Takahisa Tani , Seiji Yamada, Tap model to improve input accuracy of touch panels, Proceedings of the second international conference on Human-agent interaction, October 29-31, 2014, Tsukuba, Japan
- Masatomo Kobayashi , Atsushi Hiyama , Takahiro Miura , Chieko Asakawa , Michitaka Hirose , Tohru Ifukube, Elderly user evaluation of mobile touchscreen interactions, Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction, September 05-09, 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
Day in short
It was the first day of our summer research in Indiana University. Everything went pretty well. We started our day with a short meeting with some officials in Willkie center then we had a campus tour. Then, we had lunch with our mentors and professors. After lunch we had an orientation with Dr. Siek where we were detailed about the procedures and timetables we will be following for the whole summer. After few hours inside the room Ciabhan notified us about a gas leakage warning so we had to walk out of the building, hence we decided to take a short walk.
We returned after the warning was gone and after few minutes of talk we did wall sitting which was pretty fun. Ben explained his research to us along with the types of citations and citation managers that are used in research papers. After all, we got an assignment and time table for the next day.
Research manager:
I will use Mendely to manage citations. I studied few articles online and based on recommendations by some users I think it will be the best one for me. It has many advantages over other citation mangers that I found in the internet.