Peterson Jean

Title: Empowering older adults to engage with their own health data using multimodal feedback

Supervision Team: Emma Murphy, TU Dublin / Enda Bates, TCD

Description: Health data from physiological sensors is often conveyed to users through a graphical interface but this is not always accessible to people with disabilities or older people due to low vision, cognitive impairments or literacy issues. Real-time user feedback may not be conveyed easily from sensor devices through visual cues alone, but auditory and tactile feedback can provide immediate and accessible cues from wearable devices. To avoid higher cognitive and visual overload, auditory and haptic cues can be designed to complement, replace or reinforce visual cues. This research will involve an exploration of the potential of multimodal cues to enhance the accessibility of health information from personal sensing devices used to monitor health parameters such as blood pressure, sleep, activity, heart rate etc. By creating innovative and inclusive user feedback it is more likely that users will want to engage and interact with new devices and with their own data