Tim Plowman

Everyday technologies for Alzheimer's disease care: Research findings, directions, and challenges.

The Everyday Technologies for Alzheimers Care initiative was launched by the Alzheimers Association and Intel Corporation in 2003 to identify and fund promising research in the use of technology—especially information and communication technologies—for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating Alzheimers disease. At the last two progress meetings, scientific leaders of the two partners, together with aging health technology academic scientists, met to review the most recent research and discuss how current and developing technologies can address growing needs in Alzheimer care.

Navigation to multiple local transportation futures: cross-interrogating remembered and recorded drives

This paper describes findings from a three country, twenty-four participant study consisting of two in-home and in-car ethnographic interviews, separated by a month during which participants created videos, and their cars were GPS tracked and their Android smartphone data collected during and surrounding their driving times. We demonstrate how an ethnographic research approach that cross-interrogates data produced by GPS sensors, smart phone application monitoring, ethnographic interviews and participant-produced videos maps out a rich design space for future automotive user interfaces. These findings redefine the design space for automotive user interfaces and interactive vehicular interactions by recording real necessities, joys and pain points that people experience when using their cars.