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      YourWellness: Designing an Application to Support Positive Emotional Wellbeing in Older Adults

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      The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
      Human Computer Interaction
      12 - 14 September 2012
      Emotional Wellbeing, Older Adults, Application Design, Feedback
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            Abstract

            Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health in adults over 65. For some older people, age-related declines to physical, cognitive or social wellbeing can negatively impact on their emotional wellbeing, as can the notion of growing older, the loss of a spouse, a loss of sense of purpose or general worries about coping, becoming ill and/or death. Yet, within the field of technology design for older adults to support independence, emotional wellbeing is often overlooked. In this paper we describe the design process of an application that supports older adults in monitoring their emotional wellbeing, as well as other parameters of wellbeing they consider important to their overall health. This application also provides informative and useful feedback to support the older person in managing their wellbeing, as well as clinically-based interventions if it is determined that some action or behaviour change is required on the part of the older person. We outline findings from a series of focus groups with older adults that have contributed to the design of the YourWellness application.

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            Contributors
            Conference
            September 2012
            September 2012
            : 221-226
            Affiliations
            [0001]CASALA

            Dundalk Institute of Technology

            Dundalk, Ireland
            [0002]Netwell Centre

            Dundalk Institute of Technology

            Dundalk, Ireland
            [0003]ICAT, Virginia Tech

            Blacksburg, Virginia

            USA
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.28
            586abcb3-bf3e-4df6-af63-42665d1f8ec5
            © Julie Doyle et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction
            HCI
            26
            Birmingham, UK
            12 - 14 September 2012
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Human Computer Interaction
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.28
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Emotional Wellbeing,Older Adults,Application Design,Feedback

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