TY - GEN
T1 - Designing batteryless wearables for hospitalized older people
AU - Jayatilaka, Asangi
AU - Dang, Quoc Hung
AU - Chen, Shengjian Jammy
AU - Visvanathan, Renuka
AU - Fumeaux, Christophe
AU - Ranasinghe, Damith C.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Older people have expressed a clear desire for unobtrusive wearable monitoring devices. Emerging batteryless sensor technologies such as sensor enabled RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) create new opportunities for building unobtrusive wearables for older people. This study aims to: i) uncover user perceptions and acceptability of a batteryless wearable sensor concept for hospitalized older people; and ii) present the construction of a new textile integrated wearable sensor incorporating user feedback. We recruited 40 older people (age: 81.0 ± 7.0 years) to wear our initial sensor prototype and used two modified versions of validated questionnaires to evaluate user perceptions and acceptability. Our results showed: i) allowing older people to experience the system created the opportunity for them to develop confidence and trust in the sensing technology, even when they were initially anxious and skeptical: and ii) the first design prototype should ideally be modified to reduce its visibility. To this end, we built a new wearable sensor design.
AB - Older people have expressed a clear desire for unobtrusive wearable monitoring devices. Emerging batteryless sensor technologies such as sensor enabled RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) create new opportunities for building unobtrusive wearables for older people. This study aims to: i) uncover user perceptions and acceptability of a batteryless wearable sensor concept for hospitalized older people; and ii) present the construction of a new textile integrated wearable sensor incorporating user feedback. We recruited 40 older people (age: 81.0 ± 7.0 years) to wear our initial sensor prototype and used two modified versions of validated questionnaires to evaluate user perceptions and acceptability. Our results showed: i) allowing older people to experience the system created the opportunity for them to develop confidence and trust in the sensing technology, even when they were initially anxious and skeptical: and ii) the first design prototype should ideally be modified to reduce its visibility. To this end, we built a new wearable sensor design.
KW - Batteryless Wearables
KW - Sensor Acceptance
KW - Textile Antennas
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072801859&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP160103039
U2 - 10.1145/3341163.3347740
DO - 10.1145/3341163.3347740
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072801859
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC
SP - 91
EP - 95
BT - ISWC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2019
Y2 - 9 September 2019 through 13 September 2019
ER -