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YourWellness: Designing an Application to Support Positive Emotional Wellbeing in Older Adults

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dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Julieen
dc.contributor.authorO’Mullane, Brian A.en
dc.contributor.authorMcGee, Shaunaen
dc.contributor.authorKnapp, R. Benjaminen
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-29T13:51:15Zen
dc.date.available2017-11-29T13:51:15Zen
dc.date.issued2012en
dc.description.abstractEmotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health in adults over 65. For some older people, age-related declines to physical, cognitive or social wellbeing can negatively impact on their emotional wellbeing, as can the notion of growing older, the loss of a spouse, a loss of sense of purpose or general worries about coping, becoming ill and/or death. Yet, within the field of technology design for older adults to support independence, emotional wellbeing is often overlooked. In this paper we describe the design process of an application that supports older adults in monitoring their emotional wellbeing, as well as other parameters of wellbeing they consider important to their overall health. This application also provides informative and useful feedback to support the older person in managing their wellbeing, as well as clinically-based interventions if it is determined that some action or behaviour change is required on the part of the older person. We outline findings from a series of focus groups with older adults that have contributed to the design of the YourWellness application.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/80523en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBISLen
dc.relation.ispartofBCS HCI 2012en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEmotional Wellbeingen
dc.subjectOlder Adultsen
dc.subjectApplication Designen
dc.subjectFeedbacken
dc.titleYourWellness: Designing an Application to Support Positive Emotional Wellbeing in Older Adultsen
dc.title.serialProceedings of the BSC HCI 2012: People and Computers XXVIen
dc.typeConference proceedingen

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