Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Did the last iPhone upgrade, which added “ contact posters, NameDrop, StandBy, Live Voicemail, FaceTime video voicemail, a whole new Siri voice recognition model, huge improvements to autocorrect and dictation ” improve their user experience? Were they searching for those features? Didn’t think of that? They just want breakfast.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The user interface in the past was cumbersome and slow, and it required significant motivation and training depth, only available to the most determined end users. The user interface on smartphones and tablets has become more intuitive and voice-enabled – reducing the skill required to access technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Besides these invisible upgrades, the voice assistant technology has been continually improving – and if the user could be made aware of those improvements (a BIG IF), they might find them to be very useful. Both platforms are now in position to deliver value and benefit to older users -- and thus the opportunity to speak and be heard.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

The frustration of the user experience. All agree that the user experience, whether it is a car, a microwave or a smartphone is deteriorating, possibly due to nearly-endless but not necessarily useful ‘innovation’ from developers. Are there innovations on the horizon that will improve the tech user experience? million are men?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

User experience non-design – it’s not just tech devices – consider the stove’s cockpit.’ Studying the screen plus button choices on a new Microwave, one wonders who tested this interface? The history of tech user interfaces is instructive – leading to the ‘less (information) is more’ approach, no doubt stressful for novices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2023

Will the meeting invite be visible to my calendar, which has Google’s 500 million users – or do I need to place myself on the calendar of the person who asked to speak with me (10 million users) and request that it also be sent to my calendar? Should it be Tweeted ( 450 million active users )?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

They can also boost tech confidence and user self-sufficiency. Although the real purpose of chatbots is to save response center labor and boost efficiency – they should help the user get what they need. No contact info, though, so at some point the user is sent off to the source websites.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Figure 1 Reasons for Returning Smart Home Devices Source: Parks Associates 02-23-2023 Who provides support for the hapless user? Bafflement may be the starting point when the new device arrives – no manual, just online documentation and user forums for the determined.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2022

How have user preferences been so easily ignored? Do designers actually test a design with users before scaling it up for manufacturing or releasing the new software? Consider these 10 bad user interface designs that made it into the market. And a new era of complexity for the user will be born. Rant off. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“Too complicated, too many steps to set up devices, tech seems have been created for younger people, not user friendly, complicated processes for accessing websites, terms are not defined, jargon and symbols can be confusing, too many assumptions, users must teach themselves about platform changes.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Given the early user base of ChatGPT (optimizing language models for dialogue), 100 million within the first few months, clearly developers, investors, and consumers agree. Beginning a new report -- The Future of AI and Older Adults - thoughts welcome] category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , baby boomers

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

Separate user interfaces from physical devices – making software portable across platforms. Today, users at every age expect it and are disappointed when they cannot figure out what to do next. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

The comprehensive medical equipment enhances vision for individuals with over 20 distinct ocular disorders, frequently enabling users to attain 20/20 vision. uses haptic feedback and auditory cues to lead the user around, so the forehead makes perfect sense for giving directional hints with its wide patch of skin and proximity to the ears.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

But there are worries that they may leave some users with a phone that is nothing more than a useless brick. Carriers just want users to be sort of happy. At this point, replacing a flip phone with a flip phone is a poor choice for both Verizon and the user. So why not give them a free mediocre phone?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other wrap-up surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. It includes the calls and music functionality that users expect from true wireless earbuds and provides hearing help for users in a discreet and comfortable design.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

Unlike niche hardware and software for seniors, basic Voice First platforms and software will change rapidly and without disruption for users – accompanied by a ‘What’s New’ weekly email and a few suggestions on new tricks to try – but the changes behind the front-facing features will make the most difference.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hexoskin users have successfully demonstrated the advantages of using a form factor that patients like." Myant’s platform analyzes the data, provides guidance on lifestyle changes, and allows users to share information with healthcare providers." Learn more. Myant Health. Learn more. Sensoria Health. " Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Once upon a time, a new technology user interface was mostly just annoying. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes. At some point, the user gets mad.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

Used only by authorized users. How does User know Break-Glass could be used? This section is looking at how the user would know that Break-Glass 'could' be used. In theory, the non-authorized users would not be told that there are data that are blinded to them. Not all clinicians are going to be given this authority.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

The terms Accessibility and Usability have updated standards, presumably for the purpose of pushing vendors and web content providers along in meeting needs and making devices and user interfaces easier to understand. We are all novice users when the next release comes out. So far it is impressive. Why on earth?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. Brandwatch suggests several tactics, including: Applying better user-centered and experience design. Adopt sound security protocols and tech.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

actual Classroom : January 17 afternoon at the HL7 Workgroup meeting in Vegas This will be a refreshed version of the Tutorial I have given mostly annually to HL7.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Tech complexity for new users is getting worse. Then there is software from Volara (now owned by Uniguest , available as part of T ouchtown Voice ) offer tech concierge services that can help save staff some effort supporting individual users. And at the end of 2021, 90% of US Internet users accessed the Internet via a mobile phone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Has the tech user experience substantially improved? Or has the tech user experience also deteriorated? For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

From these proposals, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day during the Charmalot Annual User Conference, to be held Aug. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. CharmHealth will cover the costs for accommodations and meals of the short-listed candidates invited to the event.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If most older adults have access, what’s next – maybe a less-frustrating user experience? Perhaps the next wave of improvements should be on mobile device user interfaces, since advice guidelines acknowledge numerous problems – no doubt all of which older adults have experienced.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Hearing aid users need smartphones and apps. Experts note that these apps enable the user to tailor their experience to their own needs. When an alerting sound is identified, the app will display a visual alert to the user (e.g. The development of the iPhone App was paramount for our tech-savvy users. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The user envisioned in these screens is obviously quite adept with new tech. Could the device be easier to set up, start using, and be a comfortable new user experience? category tags: Aging, ageism , AgeTech , smartphones , wearables, smartwatch , tablets. Welcome to iPad! See vendor empathy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Assess remote user capability, licenses, software, hardware and bandwidth limitations to connect to your systems to ensure your systems can handle the influx of users and increased utilization of your network and resources. This will allow patients and providers to flow between different sites.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

Translating the Pew number to non-users of the Internet results in nearly 23 million people. So it would not be guessing to assume that those lacking broadband access are 100% overlapped with the Pew non-users of the Internet. How about meeting Internet non-users where they might be. Not a trivial number. Crazy, huh?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A few years ago, a $395 million settlement with 40 states was reached about Google’s lack of clarity about its location tracking, which users thought they had turned off in settings. category tags: smartphones , privacy, security , seniors and aging policy , computers, broadband, and social networking How personalized. Not really.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 14, 2023

There is a security tag available in the HL7 ValueSets for Security tagging. I use this tag in the Implementation Guides that I write to distinguish the examples I provide. I also expect that this tag is a clear flag to someone that might copy/paste these examples and pass them off as real data.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tech for all ages is remaining stubbornly difficult to use, whether it is the frequency of upgrades, the multiple steps to authenticate that the user is not a robot (including checking a box that one is not a robot! ) category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring. and so it goes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

AI can help novice users with a tech problem or search answers to perplexing questions – to avoid asking their family members or becoming buried in frustrating searches for answers. AI will likely be part of the next generation of user interfaces for all types of interactions – including health questions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2022

Non-internet users. category tags: wearables, smart watch , smartphones , computers, broadband, and social networking. The data showing that ‘no one in the home is using the Internet’ is just as striking. In 27% of US households in 2015, no one was using the Internet at home. By 2021, that percentage had declined to 18%.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 14, 2022

Virtual Classroom : July 12-14 This will be a refreshed version of the Tutorial I have given annually to HL7 2021 , 2020 , and 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

According to Business Intelligence , RPM growth (post Covid-19) is expected to grow from 45 million users to 70.6 million users by 2025. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS. Healthcare professionals agree that RPM use is expanding and predict it will continue. .

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