TY - GEN
T1 - Technology Mediated Caregiving For Older Adults Aging in Place
AU - Mynatt, Elizabeth D.
AU - Kobayashi, Masatomo
AU - Pradhan, Alisha
AU - Mathur, Niharika
AU - Vines, John
AU - Seaborn, Katie
AU - Buehler, Erin
AU - Waycott, Jenny
AU - Rudnik, John
AU - Zubatiy, Tamara
AU - Rozga, Agata
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025/4/26
Y1 - 2025/4/26
N2 - The caregiving environment for an older adult aging in place includes a network of caregivers working with the older adult to support their needs and maintain independence. As older adults experience cognitive and functional changes, their caregiving network expands to include spouses or siblings (who are often older adults themselves), children, friends, neighbors and community members—each bringing unique values, expectations, and goals. In this network of care, technology-enabled support offers the potential to mediate care responsibilities, such as coordinating activities and assisting with everyday tasks. However, designing these systems requires addressing value tensions among caregivers, cultural norms around aging, participatory research practices and balancing autonomy with safety concerns for older adults in later life. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss (1) opportunities and challenges for designing technological systems for caregiving for older adults; (2) longitudinal interactions with these systems as older adults progress through stages of functional and cognitive changes; (3) potential for such systems to support caregivers while centering older adults’ privacy and autonomy needs; and (4) the influence of cultural norms on caregiving and technology use.
AB - The caregiving environment for an older adult aging in place includes a network of caregivers working with the older adult to support their needs and maintain independence. As older adults experience cognitive and functional changes, their caregiving network expands to include spouses or siblings (who are often older adults themselves), children, friends, neighbors and community members—each bringing unique values, expectations, and goals. In this network of care, technology-enabled support offers the potential to mediate care responsibilities, such as coordinating activities and assisting with everyday tasks. However, designing these systems requires addressing value tensions among caregivers, cultural norms around aging, participatory research practices and balancing autonomy with safety concerns for older adults in later life. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss (1) opportunities and challenges for designing technological systems for caregiving for older adults; (2) longitudinal interactions with these systems as older adults progress through stages of functional and cognitive changes; (3) potential for such systems to support caregivers while centering older adults’ privacy and autonomy needs; and (4) the influence of cultural norms on caregiving and technology use.
KW - Assistive Technology
KW - Caregiving
KW - Older Adults
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U2 - 10.1145/3706599.3706721
DO - 10.1145/3706599.3706721
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105005748234
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI EA 2025 - Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025
Y2 - 26 April 2025 through 1 May 2025
ER -