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ICT-BASED SOLUTION FOR IMPROVING OLDER ADULT WORKERS’ HEALTH
ICT-BASED SOLUTION FOR IMPROVING OLDER ADULT WORKERS’ HEALTH

Author(s): Luiza Spiru, Mircea Dan MARZAN, Cosmina Paul, Magdalena Velciu
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Human Resources in Economy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Fundatia Română pentru Inteligenta Afacerii
Keywords: Health behaviour; Back pain management; Preventive health at work;

Summary/Abstract: Monitoring aging workers' health is important not only to prevent illness or work injury but to improve their quality of working life. In this article, we contribute to a deep understanding of the Romanian older adult workers as user experience while interacting with a smart ICT-based solution for monitoring physical activity and lifting effort. We want to see if using the proposed smart-insole system can help them to preserve their back health by avoiding problematic lifting during work. We share the key findings of a face-to-face survey with a small number of older adults with work experience in the medical field. We collected information on usability and easy-to-use, also further improvements to be used for advanced prototyping and scale-up of the product. Finally, participants are positive that wearing the system could be a helpful tool in avoiding back pain, not only for detecting problems but for changing their way of lifting, in a long term. This could be beneficial for workers' quality of life and promote health at work.

  • Issue Year: X/2022
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 57-61
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English
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