A CHI 2025 Workshop on
Technology Mediated Caregiving for Older Adults Aging in Place
Workshop date: April 27 2025
Location: Yokohama, Japan (and online)
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Workshop Proceedings
Workshop Proceedings
Welcome to the first Technology-Mediated Caregiving for Older Adults Aging in Place workshop at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Yokohama, Japan on April 27th, 2025.
Plenary Papers
Beyond Technology: Integrating Diverse Services to Support Physical Activity Among Older Adults Aging in Place
by Muhe Yang and Karyn Moffatt (McGill University, Canada).Setting Boundaries to Balance Informal Care and Independence: An Interview Study with Aging Parents and Adult Children
by Leila Homaeian, Michelle Ma, Vanessa Duong, Christina Li, Keiko Katsuragawa and James R. Wallace (University of Waterloo, Canada).Aging-in-place is a beautiful concept, but who can care about technological issues?
by Taro Sugihara, Yuta Iseki (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan), Takayuki Shiose (Kyoto University, Japan) and Muneou Suzuki (University of Miyazaki, Japan).Passive At-Home Health Monitoring Systems for Older Adult Care
by Elaine Czech, Aisling O'Kane, Kenton O'Hara, Eleni Margariti, Abigail Durrant, David Kirk and Ian Craddock (University of Bristol, UK).
Paper Presentations (5 minute per presentation followed by a 10 minutes authors' panel)
Paper Session 1: Ethics and Privacy of Designing with Older Adults
Autonomy for Older Adult-Agent Interaction
by Jiaxin An (The University of Texas at Austin, USA).Skeletons in the Cloud: Adversarial Motion Retargeting for Privacy Preservation in Smart Homes
by Marina Aoki, Isaac David Núñez Araya, Michael Gerndt (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Tomokazu Matsui, Hirohiko Suwa, and Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology & RIKEN AIP, Japan).Considering Autonomy in the Design of Wearables to Support Older Cardiovascular Disease Patients Communications with Physicians
by Thomas Starks, Elmira Rashidi and Aqueasha Martin-Hammond (Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA).
Paper Session 2: Lessons Learned from Studies with Older Adults
Understanding Physical Therapy Challenges for Older Adults through Mixed Reality
by Jade Kandel, Sriya Kasumarthi and Danielle Albers Szafir (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA).LLM-Powered Conversational Agent for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): A 3-Month Deployment Case Study
by Jiachen Li, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Elizabeth Mynatt and Varun Mishra (Northeastern University, USA).Voicing in Place: Care Conversation Challenges with Multimodal Voice Assistants for Older Adults in the Home
by Ewan Soubutts, Aneesha Singh (University College London, UK), Elaine Czech and Aisling Ann O'Kane (University of Bristol, UK).
Paper Session 3: Design-Centric Work with Older Adults
Navigating Privacy and Trust: AI Assistants as Social Support for Older Adults
by Karina LaRubbio, Diana Freed (Brown University, US) and Malcolm Grba (Harvard University, USA).Co-Designing Technologies With Care
by Long-Jing Hsu, David J. Crandall, Selma Sabanovic (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) and Chia-Fang Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA).Curiosity-Driven Design: Enhancing Care for Older Adults with Technology
by Kuo Wei Lee (Georgia Tech, US), Cassini Nazir (University of North Texas, USA) and Mike Courtney (Aperio Insights, USA).
Work-in-Progress (WiP) Breakout Pitches:
Balancing Exploration and Settlement: Enhancing Well-Being via Mobility Analysis and Suggestions
by Yoshiaki Inoue, Satoshi Nakagawa and Misato Nihei (The University of Tokyo, Japan).XRAI Care: A Systems Perspective on Remote Assistance for Older Adults with XR and AI
by Mallesham Dasari (Northeastern University, USA) and Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).Investigation of Feedback Styles for Encouraging Exercise with a Social Robot in Skilled Nursing Facility Settings
by Antara Shah and Naomi Fitter (Oregon State University, USA).
Poster Spotlights:
Context-Aware Assistant for Integrated Home Care: Empowering Elderly Patients and Their Care Networks
by Riku Arakawa, Shreya Bali and Mayank Goel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).Human Control on Smart Homes to Support Caregiving
by Fabio Paternò, Simone Gallo, Andrea Mattioli, Marco Manca, Carmen Santoro (CNR-ISTI, HIIS Laboratory, Pisa, Italy).Three Kinds of Assistive Technologies for MCI and Dementia
by Kiyoshi Yasuda, Masahide Nakamura and Sinan Chen (Kobe University, Japan).Carers Pal: Co-designing Mobile Application to Support Caregivers of People living with Dementia
by Eucheria Chigbu and Sayan Sarcar (Birmingham City University, UK).An Automatic Assistive System for Parkinson’s Disease: Smart Walker and Smart Belt for Fall Prevention and Freezing of Gait Detection
by Nasimuddin Ahmed and Avik Ghose (TCS Research, India).MindCare: A Mobile App for Promoting Mental Wellbeing of Older Adults
by Advay Argade, Ganesh Bhutkar, Arya Alurkar, Atharva Nehete and Ankush Dewangan (Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India).
Call for Participation
Call for Participation
A growing recognition of the potential of assistive technologies for supporting older adults requires understanding aging and caregiving perspectives, as well as the cultural factors shaping older adults’ technological interactions. In this hybrid, one-day workshop, we invite researchers, students, and practitioners working at the intersection of technology and aging and/or having investigated caregiving perspectives for older adults to engage in discussions centered on the role that technological interventions—including, but not limited to AI systems—can play to support, empower, amplify, and scaffold caregiving for older adults.
We invite interested participants to join us in one of the two ways:
(1) submit a position paper describing ongoing research, case studies or provocations engaging with workshop goals/themes described below
(4-5 pages, excluding references); or
(2) submit a statement of interest describing motivation to attend (400-600 words).
Position papers should follow the ACM Extended Abstract format ([Word][LaTeX][Overleaf]) and should be non-anonymized. We will follow a single-blind review process. For early career researchers and students not wishing to submit a position paper, we encourage you to join us by submitting a statement of interest describing your motivation to attend. In alignment with our goal of understanding caregiving challenges, we also welcome submissions that do not explicitly contain technological implementations but do explore barriers to providing care for older adults. Submissions will be accepted based on quality of submission, relevance to workshop goals, and the diversity of arguments that may contribute to productive discussions. Accepted position papers will be posted to arXiv and the workshop website. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all participants must register for the workshop.
Submission Deadlines
Submission Deadlines
Position Papers: February 13 February 27th, 2025
Statements of interest: March 5th March 20th, 2025
Notification Dates
Notification Dates
Position Papers: March 15th, 2025
Statements of interest: March 28th, 2025
Workshop Themes
Workshop Themes
We invite a wide range of submissions aligned with our workshop objectives, encouraging participants to share research ideas and engage in discussions including, but not limited to, the following themes and the interactions between these themes.
Please note that this list is not an exhaustive one, but is provided as inspiration for participants to orient their position papers and to help organizers in structuring workshop discussions. We encourage participants to refer to these themes as they capture the scope of our envisioned workshop.
Theme 1: Identifying challenges and barriers to caregiving for older adults. Caregiving often poses challenges to caregivers’ physical, mental, emotional, social, and financial well-being, including lack of social support, exhaustion, and limited financial resources, which can also affect their access to and use of technological interventions. We invite discussions on the evolving challenges caregivers face in supporting and coordinating care for their loved ones.
Theme 2: Supporting caregivers and care recipients as cognitive changes occur. As older adults experience cognitive changes like dementia, their daily routines and activities are significantly impacted. Spousal and sibling caregivers, often older adults themselves, manage their own aging concerns while supporting loved ones, creating a complex care network where cognitive changes occur on a spectrum for both the older adult receiving care and the caregiver. We invite discussions on longitudinal technological interventions that adapt to and learn from their changing cognitive abilities over time.
Theme 3: Navigating social roles and ethical and value differences among caregivers and care recipients. Caregiving for older adults involves diverse perspectives to technological implementation, requiring systems to consider the social roles between caregivers and build strategies to adapt to those. We invite discussions around incorporating these differences in social roles into technological design for consensus building, while centering the autonomy, safety, and privacy needs of older adults.
Theme 4: Bridging caregiving and healthcare in the home. Advancements in telehealth practices have brought healthcare outside the clinic, enabling remote clinical interactions. Technologies/services for caregiving and healthcare have been studied independently; however, now both happen concurrently at home, requiring emotional, privacy, safety, and regulatory considerations. We invite research focused on facilitating an integrated view of technology mediated caregiving and healthcare in the context of aging in place.
Theme 5: Understanding the role of community care resources in caregiving for older adults. Aging in place for older adults also includes provision of social and community interactions, requiring access to community resources such as public libraries, parks, community centers, and places of worship. However, mobility, transportation, and infrastructural challenges can limit access to these resources for older adults. We invite discussions on technological interventions that can support access to these resources, such as offering virtual alternatives, facilitating remote engagement, or digital platforms that help older adults stay connected to their communities.
Theme 6: Cultural norms and perspectives around aging and caregiving and its influence on use of technology. Caregiving practices for older adults, especially involving family, are shaped by societal and cultural views on aging, influencing approaches to conflict resolution, autonomy, and attitudes toward privacy. As a result, an older adult’s surrounding sociocultural context has the potential to shape their expectations and means for technology-enabled support. We will start discussions on the intersection of culture and aging, exploring how diverse cultural perspectives influence interactions with technology and ways of supporting those interactions effectively.
Theme 7: Participatory research practices involving older adults and caregivers. Traditional research methods often overlook unique age-related nuances, preferences, and communication styles, leading to outcomes that may not address the actual needs of older adults. Studies have shown that older adults face challenges in unconstrained brainstorming (blue sky ideation) for future technologies, and benefit from using design prototypes, or scenarios to provide context during co-design sessions. We invite discussions on research practices and tools that promote responsible participation with older adults and prioritize meaningful collaboration, such as community-embedded practices.
Workshop Organizers
For any questions, please reach out to the organizers at nmathur35@gatech.edu
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