Daily Activities Diarist: Supporting Aging in Place with Semantically Enriched Narratives

The Daily Activities Diarist is an awareness system that supports social connectedness between seniors living alone and their social intimates. The Daily Activities Diarist extracts automatically an Activity-of-Daily-Life (ADL)-journal from data collected through a wireless sensor network installed at the home of the seniors. We describe the design of the system, its implementation and the lessons from two trials lasting 2 weeks each. The paper makes the case for narrative presentation of awareness information and for seamful design of awareness systems of this ilk.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: INTERACT
• Authors: Georgios Metaxas, Barbaros Metin, Jutta Schneider, Panos Markopoulos, Boris E. R. de Ruyter
• Keywords: Awareness, Daily Activities Diarist, Human Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007, Wireless Sensor Network