Stream 5: "Aging as a global issue - a challenge for technology and society"
Demographic change characterizes an aging society which raises a growing, global concern: how can we care for the elderly in the future? Following the wishes of the elderly and/or chronically ill, we want to discover how assistive technology can help to assure them an independent way of life. The fact that more and even younger people suffer from chronic diseases amplifies the impact on the demand for care. Rather than following the principle “use-it-or-lose-it”, we intend on the one hand to assist, preserve, or improve existing human capabilities and, on the other hand, to take a complementary view to introduce new instruments for the caregivers and the medical profession. This opens three key aspects. First, under the auspices’ observation a target has to be identified, i.e., an answer to the question of where technology might help. Second, in the deployment phase, technology has to be made usable and acceptable. Finally, we take a reflective perspective on the social implications of technology. In this context, the standardization effect is a topic which fre-quently appears in the discourse about globalisation. The effect refers to widespread social changes induced by the introduction of new technologies. Since, for example, human-computer interaction extends beyond today’s modalities, novel standardized interaction patterns and percep-tual computing methods will be required (i.e., human body movements).
Having this background, the stream’s objective is to focus on the given topics from different per-spectives by bringing together geriatricians, sport scientists, computer scientists, sociologists, and philosophers.
Topics:
- health & activity monitoring
- modeling human behavior and discovering behavioral patterns
- assistive technology in therapy or rehabilitation
- assistive technology for aging adults
- sensing modalities for monitoring patients
- technology assisted intervention studies
- vision & reflection - what might be possible (scenarios) & what has been achieved so far
- user acceptance
- standardization - social changes caused by technology
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Contact: stream5@tog08.org
