Call for over 65+ research participants
We are researching future technologies for older people and how you anticipate future concerns and
challenges. For that, we want to ask people over 65 years old (or 50 if you consider yourself indigenous) how
you imagine your future home. We will ask you some questions about your preferred future home that you are
free to answer, and we will have a tour around your home to see how you imagine your future place.
This academic study will ensure that your voice is heard by the academic community and other stakeholders,
and will provide a new agenda to rethink the roles of the technologies designed for older people.
You should be able to speak English, Spanish, or Russian. The interview will be held in the participant’s home,
aged care facility, or online, as agreed by the participant, aged care management, and researchers. The
interview will last approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, but you are free to withdraw anytime, even after the
interview. The interview will contribute voluntarily to the exploration of future smart home and the PhD thesis
of Miguel Gomez Hernandez.
If you want, you will not be personally named or identified in any reports that arise from study, and our focus is
very much on your experience and your perceptions.Interviews will be audio-recorded, take place at a time and place convenient to you, and photography or video of materials produced during the interview might be employed if you give consent. In particular, photography or videography might be employed during the interview while we sit and you respond to questions, and during the
tour around your preferred places at your home (in which you show the researcher how you imagine your
future home). The researcher will ask you to lead the tour while you are asked questions about the future
─these interactions might be filmed or photographed. A visible small camera or a smartphone will be the
devices held by the researcher, and you can withdraw your consent to be filmed any time before, during, and
after the interview.
In addition to the previous audio-visual material, you will be asked to grant permission to share with the team of
researchers any sketches, graphics, or annotations produced during the interview. All visual materials will be
returned to you via email to edit and accept after the interview. If you do not have an email account, the
researcher will meet in person with you to get your permission to use those materials.