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Embodied Interaction Design to Promote Creative Social Engagement for Older Adults

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technologies, Design and User Experience (HCII 2020)

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This paper presents an embodied interactive system designed for older adults to promote creative and social engagement, called Move and Paint. We performed a study to investigate the engagement and behavior patterns of older adults as they used Move and Paint. We conducted a focus group and interview study to understand general attitudes towards this gesture-based interactive system. We used the results to develop an evaluation framework to identify engagement and behavior patterns of older adults and conducted pattern analysis. Our findings show that embodied interactive technology can offer creative engaging experiences that enhance opportunities for older adults to participate in social and community engagement in public spaces.

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Lee, L., Okerlund, J., Maher, M.L., Farina, T. (2020). Embodied Interaction Design to Promote Creative Social Engagement for Older Adults. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technologies, Design and User Experience. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50252-2_13

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