Designing smart living for ageing Alice – and the persons next door

Tiina Kymäläinen; Johan Plomp; Timo Tuomisto; Juhani Heinilä; Timo Urhemaa

doi:10.1080/17508975.2015.1005566

Designing smart living for ageing Alice – and the persons next door

Tiina Kymäläinen^*, Johan Plomp, Timo Tuomisto, Juhani Heinilä, Timo Urhemaa

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This article presents the co-design and development process for a home control system in the context of a healthcare ecology for older people accessing care home services. The contribution of this article is threefold: (1) it presents a design-oriented, user-centred approach for studying intelligent environments (IE); (2) it describes an ontology-based architecture that provides the foundation for the system, and (3) it introduces a proof-of-concept tool for creating and customizing IE services. The article dedicates the system to ‘Alice’, a central persona created for the initial research scenarios, representing a new arrival at a residential care home. This article illustrates the multifaceted design process and considers the challenges of linking Alice's ‘intelligent apartment’ to all the other apartments next to, and beyond, hers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-22
Journal	Intelligent Buildings International
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2015.1005566
Publication status	Published - 2015
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

co-design
do-it-yourself (DIY) experience
human-centred design
intelligent environment (IE)
intelligent environment architecture
paper-prototyping
usability evaluations
user interface design

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