DRIVE 2016 | 27 October - RTD: Resourceful ageing

1. Image: Uninvited Guests (Superflux) – thingtank.org

2. Image: Philip Stark’s ceiling light - http://tinyurl.com/oz2n3kv

3. Resourceful Ageing
Designing innovations
that empower elderly to
live resourcefully
BY ELISA GIACCARDI (TU Delft) | DRIVE Festival, October 26, 2016

4. •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)

5. Prof. Dr. Elisa Giaccardi
Industrial Design, Project Lead
Iohanna Nicenboim
Design Post-Doc
Dr. Hayley Hung
Computer Science, Co-PI
Dr. Louis Neven
Active Ageing, Co-PI
Yanxia Zhang
Machine Learning Post-doc
Dr. Lenneke Kuijer
Design ethnography, Co-PI
Jeroen Raijmakers
Design Coordinator
Benjamin Lopez
Design Lead / Service designer
Ivo Maathuis
Social Sciences Post-doc
Wanda Kruijt
Foundation for Market
Innovation in the Netherlands
Marcel Schouwenaar
Founder and partner

6. Why bother

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

9. How are we tackling this

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

11. Gain insights by asking a
community of both things and
people, and taking a holistic
perspective on their daily lives
within a complex web of use
practices .
Not only people…
but also things
are participants
Image: Oldies but Goldies (Vittoria Casanova)

12. How about our RtD process

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

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

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

17. What insights can we share

18. Resourcefulness is the everyday
practice of adjusting means to
purpose.
Things at hand are used in an
unconventional way to ‘make do’.

19. 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

21. 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 cases
Leaving home for work

22. What can you expect

23. 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.

24. • 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.

25. •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.

26. • 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.

27. To find out about
what may escape our
sense of relevance,
we ask things!
Image: Oldies but Goldies (Vittoria Casanova)

28. Thanks.