Title

Still in flow — long-term usage of an activity motivating app for seniors

Authors

l  Christian Lins (OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany)

l  Andreas Hein (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Ammerlander Heerstr. 114-118, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany)

l  Luca Halder (Bremer Heimstiftung, Marcusallee 39, 28359 Bremen, Germany)

l  Philipp Gronotte (Jade University of Applied Sciences, Ofener Str. 16/19, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany)

Publisher information

IEEE

Date of Publication

21 November 2016

Published in

2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

Key words

Bioengineering; Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies

Computing and Processing; Engineering Profession; Robotics and Control Systems; Signal Processing and Analysis; Transportation; Games; Mobile; applications; Senior citizens; Mobile communication; Software; Assisted; living; Retirement; Application Usage; Analytics; Seniors; Motivation; Elderly; Mobile Application

Abstract

In this paper, results from the long-term usage of a mobile application (app) for seniors that encourages physical and mental activity are presented. The application was designed for elderly inhabitants of senior residences to motivate them to increase their physical and mental activity in everyday life. Usage statistics of 82 users for about two years were processed and show that the active elderly users can be clustered in two groups with either increasing or decreasing and very little constant activity. Users with decreasing activity have also shown decreasing usage errors with the app’s user interface which may indicate that they are growing out of the app. The results show insight view about the usage and suggest that the Concept of Flow can be applied here.

 주요 내용

본 논문에서는 신체적, 정신적 활동을 장려하는 고령자를 위한 모바일 애플리케이션의 long-term usage 결과를 제시한다. Mobile App은 노인 시설 거주자가 일상 생활에서 신체적, 정신적 활동을 늘리도록 동기를 부여하도록 고안되었다. 약 2 년 동안 82 명의 사용자에 대한 사용 통계가 처리되었다.

ISBN

978-1-5090-3370-6

DOI

10.1109 / HealthCom.2016.7749476