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The Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System

Soubutts, Ewan; Czech, Elaine; Ayobi, Amid; Eardley, Rachel; Cater, Kirsten; O'Kane, Aisling Ann; (2023) The Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System. In: CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. p. 490). ACM Green open access

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Abstract

Whilst the use of smart home systems has shown promise in recent years supporting older people's activities at home, there is more evidence needed to understand how these systems impact the type and the amount of shared care in the home. It is important to understand care recipients and caregivers' labour is changed with the introduction of a smart home system to efficiently and effectively support an increasingly aging population with technology. Five older households (8 participants) were interviewed before, immediately after and three months after receiving a Smart Home Health System (SHHS). We provide an identification and documentation of critical incidents and barriers that increased inter-household care work and prevented the SHHS from being successfully accepted within homes. Findings are framed within the growing body of work on smart homes for health and care, and we provide implications for designing future systems for shared home care needs.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: The Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System
Event: CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581546
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581546
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169747
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