PhD Research Project

Technology for Social Programs in Residential Aged Care: Design and Implementation Considerations

I had been working with Prof. Reeva Lederman and Prof. Jenny Waycott on a PhD research project exploring how aged care organisations introduce and adopt new technologies, with a focus on VR and Videoconferencing. This research project has contributed key considerations for designing and implementing technologies to enhance the quality of life for aged care residents.

If you have any questions about this research, feel free to contact the research team:

- Dr. Kong Saoane (Saoane) Thach, School of Engineering and Technology, Tra Vinh University, Email: oane[at]tvu.edu.vn

- Prof. Jenny Waycott, Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Email: jwaycott [at]unimelb.edu.au

- Prof. Reeva Lederman, Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Email: reeva.lederman [at]unimelb.edu.au

Publications within the scope of this project:

K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, J. Waycott, "Personalizing Virtual Reality Experiences for Residents in Aged Care Homes: Lessons from a Case Study," European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023), Kristiansand, Norway, 2023 (to be published soon).
K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, J.Waycott, "Key Considerations for The Design of Technology for Enrichment in Residential Aged Care: An Ethnographic Study," The 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23), Hamburg, Germany, 2023. doi: 10.1145/3544548.3581176
J. Waycott, R. M. Kelly, S. Baker, B. B. Neves, K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, "The Role of Staff in Facilitating Immersive Virtual Reality for Enrichment in Aged Care: An Ethic of Care Perspective," The 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2022. doi: 10.1145/3491102.3501956
K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, J. Waycott, "Adoption of Videoconferencing for Social Connectedness among Older Adults: a systematic review," 32nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2021), Sydney, Australia, 2021. https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2021/15/
K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, J. Waycott, "Guidelines for Developing the VR Program in Residential Aged Care: A Preliminary Study from Staff Members’ Perspective," CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI’21 Extended Abstracts), Yokohama, Japan, 2021. doi: 10.1145/3411763.3451706
- K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, J. Waycott, "Virtual Reality in Residential Aged Care: a study of adoption and system complexity," 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2020), Wellington, New Zealand, 2020. https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2020/56
- K. S. Thach, R. Lederman, J. Waycott, "How older adults respond to the use of Virtual Reality for enrichment: a systematic review ," 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI'20), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2020, pp. 303-313. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441003.

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