Fear, Feedback, Familiarity ... How are These Connected? - Can familiarity as a design concept applied to digital feedback reduce fear?

This paper is a reflective paper discussing fear, and the emotions associated with it, felt by the elderly while using modern technologies. The pattern of fear emerged from our initial research activities. The preliminary results presented here are part of the pre-study phase within the Multimodal Elderly Care Systems (MECS) project, whic...More