DANCEALONG: SUPPORTING POSITIVE SOCIAL EXCHANGE AND EXERCISE FOR THE ELDERLY THROUGH DANCE

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DANCEALONG SUPPORTING POSITIVE SOCIAL EXCHANGE
AND EXERCISE FOR THE ELDERLY THROUGH DANCE
Pedram Keyani, Gary Hsieh, Bilge Mutlu, Matthew
Easterday, Jodi Forlizzi

• HCIResearch Paper Presentation

Prasanna Pilla
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GIST

• Overview
• The Journey
• Response
• Critique
• Enhancements

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OVERVIEW

• Targeted Audience Elderly Adults
• Augmented Dance Environment
• Aimed at improving the social and physical state
  of the elderly.
• Promoting interaction with new people
• Dance entertaining form of exercise
• Free-form self-expression and enjoyment
• Challenge User group with minimum access to
  computer and internet

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THE JOURNEY

• Two rounds of scenarios-of-use and evaluation
• Tangible Networked Games
• Dance Raised the concept of Movieoke
• Two iterations of implementation and evaluation
• Song Selection Interface
• Simple
• Single Button Dual Purpose
• Large Font
• Color Scheme suitable with low vision
• Projected Footprints
• Accounted for added attention
• Movie clips proved better cues
• Addition of extra smaller project to right and
  front.

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THE JOURNEY Contd..
The Setup of DanceAlong
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VIDEO CLIP
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RESPONSE

• Splendid response from the users as well as the
  audience.
• 4- 20 participants during particular hour, at a
  local elderly community center.
• Comments
• Its better than aerobics exercise is too
  boring, too much repetition.
• Lot of fun especially if you dont have a
  partner you dont feel as if youre really
  dancing alone.

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CRITQUE

• Really awesome way improve social and physical
  well-being
• The Song Selection Interface uses a knob for song
  selection which supports only linear search.
• Complexity of linear search O(n)
• Selection becomes a pain

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ENHANCEMENTS

• Use of Touch Screen for selection
• Categorizing the selection
• User group can be extended to include people of
  lower age group
• Use Dance Along videos for teaching dance the fun
  way
• Show the video

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THANK YOU

• ANY QUESTIONS