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

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.

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