Designing Batteryless Wearables for Hospitalized Older People
| Title | Designing Batteryless Wearables for Hospitalized Older People |
| Publication Type | Conference Proceedings |
| Year of Conference | 2019 |
| Authors | Jayatilaka, A., Q. Hung Dang, S. Jammy Chen, R. Visvanathan, C. Fumeaux, and D. C. Ranasinghe |
| Conference Name | International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2019) |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| ISBN | 78-1-4503-6870-4/19/09 |
| Keywords | Batteryless Wearable, RFID, Sensor Acceptance, Sensor Acceptance Model, WISP, Wearability Study, Wearable WISP, older people, textile antennas |
| Abstract | Older people have expressed a clear desire for unobtrusive wearablemonitoring devices. Emerging batteryless sensor technologies suchas sensor enabled RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) create newopportunities for building unobtrusive wearables for older people.This study aims to: i) uncover user perceptions and acceptability ofa batteryless wearable sensor concept for hospitalized older people;and ii) present the construction of anewtextile integrated wearablesensor incorporating user feedback. We recruited 40 older people(age: 81.0±7.0 years) to wear our initial sensor prototype and usedtwo modified versions of validated questionnaires to evaluate userperceptions and acceptability. Our results showed: i) allowing olderpeople to experience the system created the opportunity for themto develop confidence and trust in the sensing technology, evenwhen they were initially anxious and skeptical: and ii) the firstdesign prototype should ideally be modified to reduce its visibility.To this end, we built a new wearable sensor design. |
| DOI | 10.1145/3341163.3347740 |
