A multidisciplinary course integrating psychology of aging and cloud technologies...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
Purpose The rapid growth of cloud-based ICT technology provides a convenient tool to design innovative services for seniors1. Students interested in gerontechnology must be aware of the fundamentals of aging psychology and cloud technologies. We offer a full semester course to train students from ac...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 104 - 106 |
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| Formato: | abstract pictorial proceedings research Journal Article |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=180444736&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 180444736 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15691101 904R jtl: Gerontechnology issn: 15691101 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2014 Special Issue vid: 13 iid: 2 pid: 54298 pub: International Society for Gerontechnology artinfo: ui: 180444736 180444736 180444736 10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.388.00 180444736 ppf: 104 ppct: 2 formats: tig: atl: A multidisciplinary course integrating psychology of aging and cloud technologies...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan. aug: au: YEH, Z.-T. MEI, H. affil: Clinical Psychology Department, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei, Taiwan sug: subj: Curriculum Aging Psychosocial Factors Cloud Computing Education Professional Practice Education Communication Health Services for Older Persons Congresses and Conferences Taiwan Taiwan ab: Purpose The rapid growth of cloud-based ICT technology provides a convenient tool to design innovative services for seniors1. Students interested in gerontechnology must be aware of the fundamentals of aging psychology and cloud technologies. We offer a full semester course to train students from across disciplines to observe and understand the physical and psychological needs of seniors so that they can design and implement ICT products. Students work together to identify a problem and to propose and design a solution. Method This course lasts for eighteen weeks. It is taught by two instructors: one from the Clinical Psychology Department, who is responsible for psychology of aging topics2; and the other from the Computer Science and Information Engineering Department, who is responsible for teaching about cloud technology. Five speakers from the industry give lectures about real world scenarios and design principals. An hour-long lab or group discussion is scheduled after each lecture. Teaching assistants provide aid during the discussion. Students from different disciplines are grouped randomly before proposing an individual product/service proposal3. After the mid-term presentation, the topics converge to six categories, and the final project teams are formed. All content of this course is recorded and shared online. Students write web-based notes4 and discuss their lab/project in the Facebook groups after class. Results & Discussion 39 students and 2 teaching assistants participated this course in the Fall 2013. Topics of the final project included: (i) Food light tunnel (Figure 3, food and light recording and prescription service); (ii) Memory-Assisted multifunction watch (Figure 4); (iii) Game-based cognitive evaluation for elders on Pad; (iv) Aging Battle Club (A social calendar APP); (v) Intelligent cane and umbrella for elders; and (vi) I have whatever you want (Dementia assisted platform). Four teams created prototypes, and two teams presented a scenario and workflow. The presentations were shared on Youtube5. Students provided strong positive feedback in their course evaluations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: abstract pictorial proceedings research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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