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Resourceful AgeingDesigning innovations that empower elderly to

live resourcefully

BY ELISA GIACCARDI (TU Delft) | DRIVE Festival, October 26, 2016

• Started in June 2016

• An interdisciplinary team of designers, social scientists and

computer scientists

• A multi-stakeholder collaboration between university, applied

sciences, industry and consulting

• 520,000 euros total budget (with 3 full time postdocs)

Prof. Dr. Elisa GiaccardiIndustrial Design, Project Lead

Iohanna NicenboimDesign Post-Doc

Dr. Hayley HungComputer Science, Co-PI

Dr. Louis NevenActive Ageing, Co-PI

Yanxia ZhangMachine Learning Post-doc

Dr. Lenneke KuijerDesign ethnography, Co-PI

Jeroen RaijmakersDesign Coordinator

Benjamin LopezDesign Lead / Service designer

Ivo MaathuisSocial Sciences Post-doc

Wanda KruijtFoundation for Market Innovation in the Netherlands

Marcel SchouwenaarFounder and partner

Why bother

The problem with ‘foolproofing’ is that it is fundamentally unethical.

How are we tackling this

We use IoT as a tool for designing in use, together.

Gain insights by asking a community of both things and people, and taking a holisticperspective on their daily lives within a complex web of use practices .

Not only people… but also thingsare participants

Image: Oldies but Goldies (Vittoria Casanova)

How about our RtD process

We explore the new frontiers of Research through Design with data-intensive prototypes.

To make sense of data, we combine ethnography and machine learning in a participatory feedback loop.

In this feedback loop people and things act as both co-ethnographers and co-designers.

What insights can we share

Resourcefulness is the everyday practice of adjusting means to purpose.

Things at hand are used in an unconventional way to ‘make do’.

Much as to do with routinized or improvised arrangements that keep things in and around the house accessible and organized to fit one’s unique skills and needs.

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Resourcefulness in the Third Age

To find out about these arrangements – and the norms and skills that may facilitate them –we will enable families of everyday objects to communicate to each other.

Then we’ll ask them to tell us more about their arrangements.

Use casesLeaving home for work

What can you expect

A customizable system that helps elderly keep things together and never misplace them or forget them again.

It also helps us (the researchers) understand how this is done, and how it can be both generalized and improvised.

• Design knowledge on how to support Resourceful Ageing.

• A living-lab infrastructure for exploring and experimenting within a

continuous feedback loop between research hypotheses and design practice.

• New generation of products and services that ‘hack’ familiar everyday

objects within the home and originally integrate new functionalities into

these objects.

• We want to empower elderly people to live longer and more

resilient lives.

• We want to research how to design products and services for and

with elderly people that can adapt and be improvised with while in

use, as part of dispersed practices of resourcefulness.

• Giaccardi, E., Kuijer, L., Neven, L. (2016) Design for Resourceful Ageing: Intervening in the Ethics of Gerontechnology. In Proceedings of DRS 2016 Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference. June 27 – 30, Brighton, UK.

To find out about what may escape our

sense of relevance,we ask things!

Image: Oldies but Goldies (Vittoria Casanova)

Thanks.