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- Ballesteros, S., et al.
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The role of ICT and networking in healthy ageing
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Digital Library. - 9781450313001
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we report the results from the psychologicalassessment conducted using a test battery composed of cognitiveand social wellbeing tests and questionnaires performed by usersand controls that participated in the AGNES project in Spain,Sweden and Greece at the beginning of the study and after thedeployment of the first prototype. The project carries out noveltechnological interventions in an emerging area in ageingresearch. The main innovation is the integration of differenttechnological components and social networking to provide anovel solution to the ageing population living at home. Themotivation was based on relevant findings on the psychology ofageing and the need for technologies to support the ageingpopulation. End-users have been heavily involved, providingdesign input, continuum evaluation and feedback. Theprojectfocuses on improving the mental and physical wellbeing ofelderly people living at home, who often suffer the effects ofsocial and physical isolation including cognitive decline, lowactivity levels and poor mood states. The main results were thatthe users but not the control participants improved cognitiveperformance andthe feeling of being treated with respect, beingindependent, self-realization and greater achievement.
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- Riva, Giuseppe, et al.
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From intention to action : the role of presence
- 2011
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Ingår i: New ideas in psychology. - Oxford : Elsevier. - 0732-118X .- 1873-3522. ; 29:1, s. 24-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent research in neuroscience has tried to understand human action from two different but converging perspectives: the cognitive and the volitional. On one side, cognitive studies analyze how action is planned and controlled in response to environmental conditions. On the other side, volitional studies analyze how action is planned and controlled by a subject's needs, motives and goals. In this paper we suggest that the notion of presence may be the missing link between these two approaches, explaining how can we differentiate between perception, action and concepts.In particular, a consideration of presence can explain how can we distinguish between a perceived action, a planned or an executed one. We argue that the evolutionary role of presence is the control of agency through the unconscious separation of “internal” and “external” and the enaction/reenaction of intentions.The model makes sense in terms of evolutionary psychology and is beginning to be supported by evidence of the neural and other physical correlates of action, imitation and self-monitoring. Another strength of this model is that it provides testable predictions about how to improve the experience of presence in media: maximal presence in a mediated experience arises from an optimal combination of form and content, able to support the intentions of the user.
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- Waterworth, Eva, 1952-, et al.
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Mediated presence in the future
- 2010
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Ingår i: Immersed in media. - London : Routledge. - 9780415993401 ; , s. 183-196
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Waterworth, John, et al.
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Special issue : Presence and interaction
- 2012
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Ingår i: Interacting with computers. - : Elsevier. - 0953-5438 .- 1873-7951. ; 24:4, s. 190-192
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- Waterworth, John, et al.
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The Presence of Happiness
- 2009. - 1
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Ingår i: Presence for Everyone. - Edinburgh : Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University. - 9780956216908 ; , s. 25-29
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Peter, Christian, et al.
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AGNES : connecting people in a multimodal way
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. - : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 1783-7677 .- 1783-8738. ; 7:3, s. 229-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Western societies are confronted with a number of challenges caused by the increasing number of older citizens. One important aspect is the need and wish of older people to live as long as possible in their own home and maintain an independent life. As people grew older, their social networks disperse, with friends and families moving to other parts of town, other cities or even countries. Additionally, people become less mobile with age, leading to less active participation in societal life. Combined, this normal, age-related development leads to increased loneliness and social isolation of older people, with negative effects on mental and physical health of those people. In the AGNES project, a home-based system has been developed that allows connecting elderly with their families, friends and other significant people over the Internet. As most older people have limited experience with computers and often special requirements on technology, one focus of AGNES was to develop with the users novel technological means for interacting with their social network. The resulting system uses ambient displays, tangible interfaces and wearable devices providing ubiquitous options for interaction with the network, and secondary sensors for additionally generating carefully chosen information on the person to be relayed to significant persons. Evaluations show that the chosen modalities for interaction are well adopted by the users. Further it was found that use of the AGNES system had positive effects on the mental state of the users, compared to the control group without the technology.
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- Riva, Giuseppe, et al.
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Intention, action, self and other : an evolutionary model of presence
- 2015
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Ingår i: Immersed in media. - New York : Springer. - 9783319101897 - 9783319101903 ; , s. 73-99
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The term "presence" entered in the wide scientific debate in 1992 when Sheridan and Furness used it in the title of a new journal dedicated to the study of virtual reality systems and teleoperations: Presence, Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Following this approach, the term "presence" has been used to describe a widely re-ported sensation experienced during the use of virtual reality. The main limitation of this vision is what is not said. What is presence for? Is it a specific cognitive process? To answer to these questions, a second group of researchers considers presence as a broad psychological phenomenon, not necessarily linked to the experience of a medium, whose goal is the control of the individual and social activity. In this chapter we support this second vision, starting from the following broad statements: (a) the psychology of presence is related to human action and its organization in the environment; (b) the psychology of presence is related to the body and to the embodiment process; (c) presence is an evolved process related to the understanding and management of the causal texture of both the physical and social worlds. In the following paragraphs we will justify these claims and underline their relevance for the design and usage of interactive technologies.
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- Waterworth, John, et al.
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Presence : form, content and consciousness
- 2015
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Ingår i: Immersed in media. - Cham : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9783319101897 - 9783319101903 ; , s. 35-58
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Waterworth, John A., et al.
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Presence in the Future
- 2008. - 1
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Ingår i: Presence 2008. - Padova : HT Lab, University of Padova. - 9788861292871 ; , s. 61-65
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We view the sense of presence as being the result of an evolved neuropsychological process, created through the evolution of the central nervous system, and which solves a key problem for an organism’s survival: how to differentiate between the internal (the self) and the external (the other). When we experience strong mediated presence, our experience is that the technology has become part of the self, and the mediated reality part of the other. There is no attentional effort of access to information. We can perceive and often act directly, as if unmediated. The rapidly developing phenomena of mediated presence point beyond the replacement of the world with virtual other worlds, and towards dynamically changing relationships between self (and selves) and others. We discuss the implications these developments for the future of the sense of presence and of presence research.
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- Waterworth, John, et al.
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What do elderly users want and need from fitness technologies? : Findings from the ELF@Home project
- 2016
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Ingår i: Integrating technology in positive psychology practice. - Hershey, USA : IGI Global. - 9781466699861 ; , s. 104-126
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is well known that physical exercise has a significant beneficial effect on mental and physical health, and elderly fitness programs are a good and widely accepted approach to prevent frailty. In this chapter, we examine what elderly people actually want and need when it comes to technologies designed to support and encourage their physical fitness. We present the ELF@Home project as a case study, and report design insights and other results from user involvement in the project. User involvement is a key component of the approach and uses methods such as interviews, focus group meetings, early component and prototype tests with users, as well as inputs from medical experts. ELF@Home is a clear example of a "Positive Technology’" approach exemplifying the scientific and applied use of technology for improving the quality of personal experience through its structuring (by using a goal, rules, and a feedback system) and personal augmentation (to achieve multimodal and mixed experiences). The project proposes the adoption of new technology in everyday life from the perspective of positive psychology, approaching this aim by designing devices and systems that are actually usable and desirable in supporting extended healthy living for this target population.
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