Emerging Technologies for Enrichment in Old Age: A Critical Perspective

Social Robots in Aged Care: Care Staff Experiences and Perspectives on Robot Benefits and Challenges

S Yuan, S Coghlan, R Lederman, J Waycott

2022-11-11

Social robots have the potential to augment the care provided to older adults in residential aged care homes. However, social robo..

Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Online Social Activities

W Zhao, RM Kelly, MJ Rogerson, J Waycott

2022-11-11

Restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have limited opportunities for older people to participate in face-to-face organis..

Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Online Social Activities

Wei Zhao, Ryan M Kelly, Melissa J Rogerson, Jenny Waycott

2022-11-07

<jats:p>Restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have limited opportunities for older people to participate in face-to-face..

The Role of Staff in Facilitating Immersive Virtual Reality for Enrichment in Aged Care: An Ethic of Care Perspective

Jennifer Waycott, Ryan M Kelly, Steven Baker, Barbara Barbosa Neves, Kong Saoane Thach, Reeva Lederman

2022-04-29

Immersive virtual reality (VR) is being used as an enriching experience for people living in residential aged care, or nursing hom..

Technology-Mediated Enrichment in Aged Care: Survey and Interview Study

Jenny Waycott, Wei Zhao, Ryan M Kelly, Elena Robertson

2022-04-01

BACKGROUND: Digital technologies such as virtual reality (VR), humanoid robots, and digital companion pets have the potential to p..

Swipe a Screen or Say the Word: Older Adults' Preferences for Information-seeking with Touchscreen and Voice-User Interfaces

S Coghlan, J Waycott, L Nui, K Caine, B Stigall

2021-11-30

Over a decade ago, the introduction of touchscreens greatly enhanced older adults' access to information online. Today, voice-user..

When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life

Barbara Barbosa Neves, Jenny Waycott, Alexia Maddox

2021-08-24

This article discusses sociotechnical challenges of technology-based interventions to address loneliness in later life. We bring t..

The Harm in Conflating Aging With Accessibility

Bran Knowles, Vicki L Hanson, Yvonne Rogers, Anne Marie Piper, Jenny Waycott, Nigel Davies, Aloha Hufana Ambe, Robin N Brewer, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Marianne Dee, David Frohlich, Marisela Gutierrez-Lopez, Ben Jelen, Amanda Lazar, Radoslaw Nielek, Belen Barros Pena, Abi Roper, Mark Schlager, Britta Schulte, Irene Ye Yuan

2021-07-01

Including older adults as full stakeholders in digital society.

Guidelines for Developing the VR Program in Residential Aged Care: A Preliminary Study from Staf Members' Perspective

KS Thach, R Lederman, J Waycott

2021-05-08

Despite there being evident benefits of using virtual reality (VR) in aged care, it is not yet widely used in residential aged car..

Virtual visits: Reminiscence in residential aged care with digital mapping technologies

Sarah Webber, Steven Baker, Jenny Waycott

2021-02-04

OBJECTIVE: Digital technologies can support reminiscence and lifestyle enrichment in residential aged care. This study explores po..

Challenges of Deploying VR in Aged Care: A Two-Phase Exploration Study

W Zhao, S Baker, J Waycott

2020-12-02

While VR has shown benefits such as improving alertness, recalling memories and cognitive training for older adults, it is challen..

Empowering Caregivers of People Living with Dementia to Use Music Therapeutically at Home: Design Opportunities

R Carrasco, FA Baker, AA Bukowska, IN Clark, LM Flynn, K McMahon, H Odell-Miller, K Stensaeth, J Tamplin, TV Sousa, J Waycott, T Wosch

2020-12-02

Human-computer interaction researchers have explored how to design technologies to support people with dementia (PwD) and their ca..

How older adults respond to the use of Virtual Reality for enrichment: A systematic review

KS Thach, R Lederman, J Waycott

2020-12-02

Virtual Reality (VR) has been increasingly used for enrichment in later life. This review aims to investigate what is currently kn..

Marginalized communities, emerging technologies, and social innovation in the digital age: Introduction to the special issue

Jia Tina Du, Iris Xie, Jenny Waycott

2020-05-01

Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations - Addressing Global Challenges

Sayan Sarcar, Cosmin Munteanu, Jussi Jokinen, Neil Charness, Mark Dunlop, Xiangshi Ren, Jenny Waycott

2020-04-25

We are concurrently witnessing two significant shifts: digital devices are becoming ubiquitous, and older people are becoming a ve..

Older adults' perception and use of voice user interfaces: A preliminary review of the computing literature

B Stigall, J Waycott, S Baker, K Caine

2019-12-02

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are quickly becoming ubiquitous. The natural language interface of VUIs may be more usable for some g..

Could Social Robots Make Us Kinder or Crueller to Humans and Animals?

Simon Coghlan, Frank Vetere, Jenny Waycott, Barbara Barbosa Neves

2019-12-01

The Montréal Declaration for Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence states that emerging technologies ought not “encou..

HCI and aging: Beyond accessibility

B Knowles, Y Rogers, J Waycott, VL Hanson, AM Piper, N Davies

2019-05-02

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Despite improvements in the accessibility of digital technologies and growing number..

Building Social Connections: A Framework for Enriching Older Adults' Social Connectedness Through Information and Communication Technologies

Jennifer Waycott, Frank Vetere, Elizabeth Ozanne

2019-01-01

Aged care providers and researchers are increasingly exploring the use of communication technologies to help older people remain c..

Designing Technologies with Older Adults: Ethical Tensions and Opportunities

Jennifer Waycott, John Vines

2019-01-01

In this chapter, we reflect on our experiences of designing and evaluating new technologies with older adults. We describe encount..

Using robot pets instead of companion animals for older people: A case of 'reinventing the wheel'?

S Coghlan, J Waycott, BB Neves, F Vetere

2018-12-04

© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. Robot pets are being developed and deployed to provide companionship for older adults...

Manipulating reality? Designing and deploying virtual reality in sensitive settings

J Waycott, G Wadley, S Baker, HS Ferdous, T Hoang, K Gerling, CJ Headleand, AL Simeone

2018-05-30

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Virtual reality (VR) is now being designed and deployed in diverse sensitive sett..

Deploying new technology in residential aged care: Staff members' perspectives

W Cavenett, S Baker, J Waycott, R Carrasco, E Robertson, F Vetere, R Hampson

2018-01-01

Residential aged care facilities (RACFs) provide full-time, permanent care for older adults who are no longer able to live at home..