23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

OldLab

Anders, Olaf, Rasmus and Maria

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

- Elderly people have limited options when wanting to communicate. Only few products are aimed at this particular age group.

- We want to change this by creating an intuitive artifact for blogging.

- Elderly people have both the time and the stories to tell, and with a tool matching them they can be the new wave of bloggers.

Intuitive blogging for elderly people

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Context and user research2 Visits to Peder Lykke Centret, a daycentre for elderly people. Observations and picture taking. (“Fly on the wall”)

Interviews. (“Semi-structured”)

- We conducted interviews with several elderly people about their daily lives and means of communications.

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Personas: ”Elderly people”Creating a common understanding of our design domain.

- Both male and female.

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

medie

• E-ink

• Skærme

• Papir

• Æselører

• understregning

• udklip

Wireless opdatering vs. Hente PLC- Avisen

Gatekeepers

frit

dagcenter

aviserensretning

Input stemme

skrift

Indhold

• billeder

• tekst

• aviser

• blog

• info

• medicin

• bøger

• brochurer

• lyd

• tilmelding

• menu

• Suduko

• kryds og tværs

Egenskaber

Navigation

• skifte side

• overskrift

• forstørre/formindske

• søge

• rss opdatering

• standarder

BLOG

Behov

• kontakt (efter lukketid)

• historiefortælling

• læring

• opdatering

Strøm• dok

• batterier

• selvgenerering

Brainstorming:

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Interests and easy access- The 2nd interview confirmed our suspicion that elderly people want to

share experiences, opinions and stories. “I am in a wine club. It would be great if I could read about wine

and write to other elderly people in Denmark with the same interest.”

- Some elderly do in fact know how to use a pc, but the majority do not feel confident using one.

“[…] The most difficult is to install new applications.”

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Cultural Probes

- We gave 2 elderly women a disposable camera to photograph the things they

like using and thing they find difficult using.

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Interaction Relabelling: BloggingBlogStokken (The blog cane)

BloggyBag

BlogNoculars

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Our final design directionMotivation and inspiration for elderly people to start blogging

- We want to create a network of elderly bloggers where they can write and read about the thing that they are interested in.

Create a new platform for blogging

- We want to make a more intuitive service for elderly people who have information they want to share.

23/30 October Interaction Design at ITU, Fall 2006Simona Maschi and Heather Martin

Our current design ideaBlogBook