@inproceedings{420a1e73722848789ddcd440ffb2aca9,
title = "Control Matters in Elder Care Technology: Evidence and Direction for Designing It In",
abstract = "Studies find that older adults want control over how technologies are used in their care, but how it can be operationalized through design remains to be clarified. We present findings from a large survey (n=825) of a well-characterized U.S. online cohort that provides actionable evidence of the importance of designing for control over monitoring technologies. This uniquely large, age-diverse sample allows us to compare needs across age and other characteristics with insights about future users and current older adults (n=496 >64), including those concerned about their own memory loss (n=201). All five control options, which are not currently enabled, were very or extremely important to most people across age. Findings indicate that comfort with a range of care technologies is contingent on having privacy- and other control-enabling options. We discuss opportunities for design to meet these user needs that demand course correction through attentive, creative work.",
keywords = "Aging, Assistive technology, Control, Dementia, Health technology, Memory loss, Older adult, Privacy, Remote monitoring",
author = "Clara Berridge and Yuanjin Zhou and Amanda Lazar and Anupreet Porwal and Nora Mattek and Sarah Gothard and Jeffrey Kaye",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Owner/Author.; 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, DIS 2022 ; Conference date: 13-06-2022 Through 17-06-2022",
year = "2022",
month = jun,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3532106.3533471",
language = "English (US)",
series = "DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "1831--1848",
booktitle = "DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference",
}