Insights from Co-Design of Underwater Telepresence and Extended Reality Technologies with Digitally Excluded Older Adults

Oksana Hagen, Marius Varga, Rory Baxter, Ray Jones, Amir Aly, Dena Bazazian, Swen Gaudl, Alejandro Reyes

2024

Abstract

The Intergenerational Co-design of Novel Technologies In Coastal Communities (ICONIC) project is running co-design workshops with older (50+) and younger people (16-30) to design technologies suitable for older people’s wellbeing. We aim to design four novel technologies in extended reality (XR), underwater telepresence (UT), social games and voice interaction. This late breaking report focuses on workshop results for the first two technologies. Ten workshops were held (August 23 - February 24) involving 24 older people and 12 younger people. Our co-design methods were demonstrably feasible although recruiting younger people is difficult. Nevertheless, the thematic and content analysis showed the importance of intergenerational collaboration for the participants, a consistent desire for social interaction aspect in technology design, the existence of a duality between the desire for immersion and connection to physical reality, as well as special attention to cost and accessibility. As an outcome of the co-design process, we are developing prototype systems streaming live video from an underwater 360° camera underwater in the sea and XR presence in a historical building. We discuss some of the crucial considerations of the technology co-design process such as balancing the introduction of existing technology to raise awareness versus idea generation. Insights obtained from ICONIC’s co-design workshops are relevant to researchers designing information and communication technologies for older people.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hagen O., Varga M., Baxter R., Jones R., Aly A., Bazazian D., Gaudl S. and Reyes A. (2024). Insights from Co-Design of Underwater Telepresence and Extended Reality Technologies with Digitally Excluded Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE; ISBN 978-989-758-700-9, SciTePress, pages 298-303. DOI: 10.5220/0012741900003699

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe24,
author={Oksana Hagen and Marius Varga and Rory Baxter and Ray Jones and Amir Aly and Dena Bazazian and Swen Gaudl and Alejandro Reyes},
title={Insights from Co-Design of Underwater Telepresence and Extended Reality Technologies with Digitally Excluded Older Adults},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE},
year={2024},
pages={298-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012741900003699},
isbn={978-989-758-700-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE
TI - Insights from Co-Design of Underwater Telepresence and Extended Reality Technologies with Digitally Excluded Older Adults
SN - 978-989-758-700-9
AU - Hagen O.
AU - Varga M.
AU - Baxter R.
AU - Jones R.
AU - Aly A.
AU - Bazazian D.
AU - Gaudl S.
AU - Reyes A.
PY - 2024
SP - 298
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0012741900003699
PB - SciTePress