Personalized Persuasion for Social Interactions in Nursing Homes
This work addresses social isolation in nursing homes, but it is incremental as it builds on existing research without introducing major innovations.
The paper tackled the problem of stimulating social interactions among older adults in nursing homes by investigating motivations and obstacles through surveys, apps, and focus groups, and proposed a mixed physical-virtual technology approach to address issues like technological disparity and lack of conversation topics, but no concrete results or numbers were reported.
This paper presents our preliminary investigation and approach towards a mixed physical-virtual technology for stimulating social interactions among and with older adults in nursing homes. We report on set of surveys, apps and focus groups aiming at understanding the different motivations and obstacles in promoting social interactions in institutionalised care. We then present our approach to address some of the key themes found, e.g., the technological disparity, lack of conversation topics and opportunities to interact