Supporting carers in their caring role through design

Carers are people who look after family, partners or friends who could not manage without them because of frailness, illness or disability. Our contribution is to show the potential for design and technology to better support carers in their vital caring role. We describe why it is important to recognize and consider carers in the design of new home health monitoring technology, and why it is important to help carers maintain their health and well being. We also present a new home monitoring prototype system called @Hand. @Hand is informed by a survey distributed to carers in Moray, North East Scotland on sharing health information. The main difference with current systems is the focus on information sharing between cared-for and carer, rather than cared-for and health professional, and carers are encouraged to use the system to monitor their own health. Keywords Carer, survey, self care, home monitoring ACM Classification Keywords H5.2. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Andrea Taylor, Richard Wilson, Stefan Agamanolis
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Distance Lab Forres, Forres Enterprise Park, Human Computer Interaction, Park Forres