Resourceful ageing

In products designed specifically for older people, the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the elderly is often underestimated in favour of designs that overestimate the extent to which older people are in need of assistance. This book is about what older people can still do. The book describes an...

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description In products designed specifically for older people, the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the elderly is often underestimated in favour of designs that overestimate the extent to which older people are in need of assistance. This book is about what older people can still do. The book describes an award-winning project that combined design experimentation, machine learning, and ethnographic fieldwork to create and prototype designs that could support older people in everyday practices of resourcefulness. The results offer the reader a categorized set of strategies for supporting resourcefulness in older people’s everyday lives; methodological considerations on algorithmic design practices and the role of machine learning in support of improvisation; and, relevant design tools and techniques. The book concludes with reflections on the importance of designing technology for older people not as ‘intervention’, but as ‘resources’. If designers want to support ageing in place, they must empower older people to configure technology with a higher degree of freedom. Editors: Elisa Giaccardi, Iohanna Nicenboim Authors: Elisa Giaccardi, Iohanna Nicenboim, Lenneke Kuijer, Louis Neven, Hayley Hung, Ivo Maathuis, Yanxia Zhang, Benjamin Lopez
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1614222025-06-17T07:37:26Z Resourceful ageing Giaccardi, Elisa Nicenboim, Iohanna product design aging in place resourcefullness care technology Internet of Things thing ethnography machine learning thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design In products designed specifically for older people, the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the elderly is often underestimated in favour of designs that overestimate the extent to which older people are in need of assistance. This book is about what older people can still do. The book describes an award-winning project that combined design experimentation, machine learning, and ethnographic fieldwork to create and prototype designs that could support older people in everyday practices of resourcefulness. The results offer the reader a categorized set of strategies for supporting resourcefulness in older people’s everyday lives; methodological considerations on algorithmic design practices and the role of machine learning in support of improvisation; and, relevant design tools and techniques. The book concludes with reflections on the importance of designing technology for older people not as ‘intervention’, but as ‘resources’. If designers want to support ageing in place, they must empower older people to configure technology with a higher degree of freedom. Editors: Elisa Giaccardi, Iohanna Nicenboim Authors: Elisa Giaccardi, Iohanna Nicenboim, Lenneke Kuijer, Louis Neven, Hayley Hung, Ivo Maathuis, Yanxia Zhang, Benjamin Lopez 2025-06-17T07:37:25Z 2025-06-17T07:37:25Z 2023 book ONIX_20250616T183342_9789463667227_3 9789463667227 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161422 eng image/png Attribution 4.0 International https://books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog/view/76/129/207 TU Delft OPEN Publishing 10.59490/mg.76 10.59490/mg.76 6e038278-520e-4e74-a239-d06f0d179364 9789463667227 open access
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aging in place
resourcefullness
care technology
Internet of Things
thing ethnography
machine learning
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design
Resourceful ageing
title Resourceful ageing
title_full Resourceful ageing
title_fullStr Resourceful ageing
title_full_unstemmed Resourceful ageing
title_short Resourceful ageing
title_sort resourceful ageing
topic product design
aging in place
resourcefullness
care technology
Internet of Things
thing ethnography
machine learning
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design
topic_facet product design
aging in place
resourcefullness
care technology
Internet of Things
thing ethnography
machine learning
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design
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