Asymmetry of Needs

Anna Witcraft, Anthony Tang, and Gerald Hushlak. (2015). Asymmetry of Needs. In Smart for Life: Designing Smart Home Technologies that Evolve with Users- Workshop at CHI 2015.

Abstract

While there exist substantial efforts to support independent living among the elderly, a significant portion of this demographic will continue to require assisted living facilities. Many of the residents in these facilities may experience extreme feelings of loneliness and depression. Our interest is in addressing these feelings of loneliness. We report here on an early pilot study of a paper prototype for a communication system and our early insights from this process. Specifically, we discuss the asymmetry of desiring communication, the cost of interaction, the accessibility of tools and the topics of conversation.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2015-chi2015workshop-asymmetry-of-needs.pdf)
URL (http://www.zpac.ch/smartforlife/cfp.html)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{witcraft2015asymmetry,
  author = {Witcraft, Anna and Tang, Anthony and Hushlak, Gerald},
  booktitle = {Smart for Life: Designing Smart Home Technologies that Evolve with Users- Workshop at CHI 2015},
  editor = {Mennicken, Sarah and Hwang, Amy and Yang, Rayoung and Hoey, Jesse and Mihailidis, Alex and Huang, Elaine M.},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2015-chi2015workshop-asymmetry-of-needs.pdf},
  title = {Asymmetry of Needs},
  type = {workshop},
  url = {http://www.zpac.ch/smartforlife/cfp.html},
  year = {2015}
}