Project Introduction

An initial meeting with Steve was held  at his home, to learn about his daily life and develop  an idea for an electronic device that would help him complete daily tasks more effectively. The solution can take any form but will be specifically tailored for his needs.

Discussion Agenda

Prior to our meeting with Steve, we spent a lot of time crafting particular questions and activities that would enhance our ability to better understand his needs and expectations for the project. Our goal was to  observe the context of his living environment, and uncover factors of his daily routine that may benefit from an assistive device. Below is our agenda with Steve:

Introduction of project (20 min)

• Thank yous
• About us
  • Our names
  • Where we are from
  • What we are studying
• Would you mind if we take pictures to document our process and keep the ideas we generate here fresh

Project outline (2-3 min)

• Objective: “Create an electrical device that will make a frequent task more convenient”
  • We look forward to working with you over the several weeks

• *(bring project 2) discuss and show the devices we have already made for ourselves here
• Tonight we want to get to know about you, your life and the things that could be improved. We want to start with a few questions, then conduct a two activities, and then wrap up

Get to know Steve (7 min)

• Could you give us a brief overview of your life journey up until this point?
• What are your top hobbies?
• What are your interests(major/hobbies)?
• How does your family and/or close friends play a role in your life?
• How did you come to participate in this activity?

• We heard you had an idea for what we could do to help you. We were curious if you would mind telling us after we work through a few activities to help us better understand your environment

Ethnographic Questions (8-10 min)

• Could you tell us about your typical day hour-by-hour?
• Could you tell us about a specific experience where you got frustrated at something you interact with everyday and how you solved the problem?
• How do you go about solving problems?

Design Activities (30-40 min)

Touchstone tour + home visit (15-20 min)

• We’d like you to take us on a tour. We’ve provided these stickers that correlate to the questions and statements on this sheet. The questions are:
  • I feel frustrated about ________
  • I am interested in understanding ______ better because ______
  • I want to know more
  • I don’t understand _______
  • I worry about _______
  • I trust this
  • I wish _____ was here
  • This is not great
  • I avoid this
  • This works well
  • This works poorly
  • Something needs improvement

• Please take 5-10 min to place these stickers on items around the house that you feel match these statements. Afterward, we’ll talk about them. Don’t feel like you need to use all of them or even one of every question. Only use the stickers you feel are appropriate

Flexible Modeling (15 min)

• Each of us will draw or create an idea that may be helpful using the paper and craft tools in front of us. Please feel free to annotate specific functionalities or needs
• Afterward, let’s have brief discussion

We would like to hear your idea and combine it with the observations we just heard

Wrap-up & Reflection (5-10 min)

• Thank you for your time and support. We can’t promise that exactly what we modeled here is what the end result will look like. We believe the best solutions come through iteration and testing. Sometimes this requires a pivot.
• To be successful we’d like to stay in contact as we iterate on ideas and have you test them and give us feedback because we want to make sure that we work together to create something actually useful
• Would you be willing to to give us feedback via email, over the phone or in person over the next several weeks?
• What feedback or additional information do you feel we missed or you would like to share with us?

Original Agenda

 Summary

Photographs from Buggy, and Chess Score Sheet.

Steve earned his Metallurgy  degree from CMU. He was an avid buggy builder and racer in his days at CMU, and he shared some of his old buggy racing photos with us. Steve is in his upper 60s and is currently working once a week  for a furnace company which focuses on building large scale furnaces for industrial metal working. Work has kept him busy through life.  After retirement, Steve remains active through playing and teaching chess, and traveling for work.  Steve was a cross country runner at CMU, and still wants to remain physically active.  He likes to walk many places and spend time on the treadmill at the JCC.

We learned that Steve wants to keep an alert mind and does this by reading, playing chess, teaching at the JCC, and interacting with others. If he isn’t doing any of those activities, he can be found working or watching old TV shows. He especially likes Hawaii Five-0 and CSI style shows.

We also observed that his current solution ideas  focus on learning and decreasing small frustrations or inconveniences in his life.  One his greatest  inconveniences is his disorganization, causing him to lose things.

Through our discussion, we uncovered three potential ideas to help Steve:

1. A device to alert him if he is nodding off in the car.
   1. He finds that driving long distances to see his siblings or for work can be tough because he becomes sleepy. His idea here was to have a device that is either worn or free in the car that alerts him if he is falling asleep at the wheel. The alert should be clear but not startling. He’d prefer not needing to remember to put anything on.
2. A device to help him locate his iPhone.
   1. We could suggest using the find my iPhone app, but it seems that one of his main struggles with finding his iPhone is  being able to hear it ring when called from another phone. We could explore ways to indicate where the phone is within the home that don’t require sound for location.
   2. He also doesn’t want to carry anything extra bulky around on his phone. Minimalistic size is best.
3. An electronic chess score keeper
   1. He’s tried electronic score keepers before but they seem to cumbersome, and writing the scores down is just faster.
   2. Perhaps we could use our score keeper to show him his trends and scores over time.

Overall the conversation was very amiable, although he was hesitant to participate in the design actives we prepared. Also, it felt like the invitation to participate in the project stretched him a little bit.

Chess Set Given at Retirement.

The idea of exploring potential areas of assistance not only opened up Steve to providing more context to his day, but also highlighted the process of various activities and actions he takes. By the end of our discussion he had opened up and we began talking about about staying in contact to test our prototypes with him, at his convenience.

Reflection & Synthesis

Overall, the meeting was very positive and Steve was excited to meet with us and work with us in the coming weeks. We are still in the process of synthesizing our interview into a specific direction. This is fine, but due to the difficulty of uncovering more specifics around the daily processes Steve makes, we will need to continue to develop the conversation with him to make sure our ideating truly meets his needs.

We strayed from our meeting plan to suite the comfort of Steve. During the interview, Steve was initially hesitant to participating in the planned activities. However,  casual conversation with intended design questions in mind enhanced our ability to understand more about Steve and the things he struggles with daily.  We feel that framing our intentions  to Steve before the actual meeting  would have given us better participation. Also, having more potential ideas on hand to meet his needs could have been more effective than just the three we brought. It was effective to  provide natural conversation and a strong framework to encourage people to participate in an activity outside of their comfort zone in order to uncover more.

Meeting Steve in his home was valuable to understand his environment and the things that he values. In future meetings we may meet him at other locations around Pittsburgh that are familiar to Steve to observe other potential environments where we could make an positive impact.

So far, each of us had a slightly different insights and take aways from our meeting. We do not know what we are going to prototype yet, as we need to research the implementation options for the initial ideas.  Over the next week we are looking forward to discussing, affinity mapping, and analyzing our next steps.

We are students at Carnegie Mellon University taking a class in physical computing, a project-based course in which we learn the basic skills in programming and electronics to build simple interactive devices.  Throughout this course and each project, we have been challenged to raise the bar and use our newfound knowledge to create fun, interactive, and creative devices.  Our current and final project challenges us to make a device that would benefit not ourselves but someone else.  We were assigned to meet with Joseph, an older gentlemen from the Pittsburgh community, and to create a device that would somehow benefit his life.  The device doesn’t need to be anything grand or hold commercial value,  it is simply specifically designed to help out Joseph by solving a troublesome aspect of his life.  Our group, the Dog-Loving Duo, consisting of Kristie, Logan, and Chirag (who came along to help out Logan and me because of his design expertise) met with Joseph at his apartment in downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, March 30.   There, we talked about our lives and what types of technology we could build.

Meeting with Joseph in his beautiful apartment

Agenda

Before the meeting, we met on Thursday to plan for the meeting and divide up roles to make the meeting run smooth.  Logan was assigned as our picture taker, Kristie was the talker, and Chirag was the note taker.

Initial Plan for meeting:

Introduction:

• Start off with each member introducing themselves (names, majors, interests)
• Explain the purpose of the project and what we hope to accomplish this meeting
• Ask for permission to take photos during meeting

Interview

• Start by learning more about Joseph’s life in general, using probing questions like “why is this important to you?”
• Place the three print outs of our purpose next to him, so he is unconsciously thinking about them during the meeting (see picture below)
• Ask him about any difficulties he faces
• Don’t start by showing previous designs so as to not limit the creative process and only use if needed
• Use print outs of different areas in life if there is difficulty thinking of new ideas (see picture below)
• Ask Joseph to walk us through an average day
• Ask about his experience with technology and what he thinks of it
• Use knowledge we gained from a simple Google search on Joseph (learned he used to paint) to bring up new talking points

Conclusion

• Exchange contact information
• Thank him for his time and allowing us to visit his home
• Re go over timeline

Placed these ideas next to him to keep the meeting focused and unconsciously get him thinking about these ideas and as reminders in case he forgot

Ideas for different areas of his life we could improve

Meeting Summary

During this meeting we learned a lot about Joseph’s life and identified several areas where we could create devices to help.  Joseph is retired from sales and marketing and used to work for Gatorade from the time the company first started.  We learned that Joseph is a dog owner, avid reader, and enjoys going on walks with his wife.  He is also a vegan and has a fascination with technology and learning new things as he enjoys taking classes through Carnegie Mellon’s Osher program and at UPitt.

We came up with a few different ideas based on problems Joseph brought up and his various interests.  After discussing practicality, we narrowed it down to three ideas, but haven’t decided which of the three to use and the specifics of each idea yet.

Ideas for Projects:

1.) Staying awake in class:

While we were talking, Joseph mentioned that it’s sometimes difficult for him to stay awake during the classes he takes.  He also mentioned that when the previous group who is working with his wife came to visit, they showed him someone’s device for staying awake and he really liked it.  Ironically, this device was created by our group member, Kristie.  Therefore, our first idea is to expand on this device by making it wireless, more compact, and try out new ideas other than a motion sensor attached to a pencil to detect if someone is awake or not.

2.) Inventory Checker (Figuring out what he already has and still needs in his cabinets or refrigerator):

Cabinet in his house

Refrigerator in his house

Joseph mentioned that it’s difficult to remember what he already has in his cabinets/refrigerator and hard to find food in them.  This causes him and his wife to buy more food than they need since they didn’t realize they had the food already because it  was hidden in their cabinets or refrigerator.  Therefore, we discussed potentially creating a device outside of his cabinet that could keep track of what is currently in his cabinets or refrigerator and what shelf it’s on.  We also thought it would be convenient if the device could beep or light up when he runs out of something so he knows.

3.) Book Reminder:

Book Shelf in his apartment

Joseph mentioned that he enjoys reading books, but it is sometimes difficult to remember where he left off, especially since he is usually reading more than one book at a time for his various book clubs.  Therefore, we discussed creating a device that could keep track of where he was in each of his books.

Final Thoughts

We think the meeting went very smoothly.  We didn’t quite follow the agenda we created as our meeting was a lot more like a regular conversation and just flowed naturally.  We did get derailed a bit, but Chirag always helped bringing the group back on track. Joseph was very easy to talk to and his dog was adorable (hence the group name).  Also, him and his wife were very friendly making us snacks and offering tea.  The snacks were very  delicious and it was sweet of them to make them for us!  The only difficulty was the fact that his wife was there as the meeting was supposed to be with just Joseph.  We felt awkward suggesting she leave and felt it was unavoidable since they’re a couple.  His wife was very nice though and only talked about her husband, so we still mostly stayed on track despite her being there.  We were quite surprised by Joseph’s love of technology as he uses Alexa, orders groceries online, and enjoys using photoshop.  His interest in technology made the meeting run a lot smoother as did the fact that him and his wife met with the previous group already and therefore, knew what the project was about, so we didn’t need to explain it for too long and could just jump straight into talking about problems. Overall, our meeting went well and we wish we had more time to talk to Joseph as it was a lot of fun and we could have fleshed out our ideas a bit more.

Team: Red Chameleon
Members: Ryan, Willow, Chileshe

We are students at Carnegie Mellon University taking a Physical Computing course, where we learn both mechanical and programming skills to create devices to improve daily tasks such as alarms that alert us when laundry is done or a refrigerator timer to prevent food from spoiling. On Friday, March 30th, we met with Philip, who lives in Squirrel Hill, at his home to see if we can apply the skills we’ve attained to help better a part of his life that he too finds inconvenient. Although he lives alone, he finds time to interact with his community by joining social clubs where he edits newsletters for one of them every month, so there was a lot to learn through our meeting with him.

Agenda

-Bring colored pen and paper, PassBox project, and a laptop.

INTRO

-Introduce ourselves and our intentions.

-Demo Ryan’s PassBox, and explain how it relates to our project.

-Ask for permission to take photos.

INTERVIEW

-Ask about general difficulties.

-Aspects of Daily Life:

• What do you do weekly? What are the difficult activities?
• Categories: social/communication, transit, daily routine, work, leisure/comfort/entertainment, money, shopping
• Where is time wasted? Can this activity be demonstrated?  
• Why do you think this is important?
• How do you wish for it to be improved? What kind of assistance would be helpful.

-Technological aspect:

• What does he like and dislike about technology.
• What is his attitude towards digital tech, and does he use it often or does he prefer more analog technology?

DRAWING

-What kind of gadget would be of most use to you?

-Brainstorm ideas by drawing it out, and ask for feedback.

WRAP-UP

-Take photos!

-Tell him project schedule:

1. Meetings with older people in their home/community/elsewhere (week of March 26th)
2. Documentation of this meeting (due at noon on Sunday, April 1st)
3. Quick development and presentation of a “behaves-like” prototype (April 2nd–10th)
4. Presentation and crit of these prototypes with older friends (April 11th)
5. Elaboration/improvement/changes/finalization of the final project artifact (April 12th–May 1st)
6. Final presentations and crits with older friends (May 2nd)
7. Final documentation (due week of May 6th)

Meeting summary and major takeaways

Philip discussed his lack of a working mobile phone. In addition, during our discussions with him, he made use of a hearing aid. It seems that Philip also has difficulty reaching his telephone as a result of these two things. His computer does not work all the time, and he expressed a desire for it to be fixed, and for a proper notification system. Philip seems to really like puzzles of all sorts, it seems to be his main past-time, besides writing. For example, he usually had a new newspaper each morning in order to work on puzzles, and he has a hobby of working on novel chess problems. Philip is also member of the Explorer’s Club of Pittsburgh, in which he functions as a writer and chronicler. He also participates in the JCC, where he goes often for a shower and lunch. Observations of his home included, by his description, a lack of organization, and a desire for more stringent guidelines for getting rid of excess. Philip likes to annotate and systemize his photographs for future reference, and to fuel his genealogy hobby. In the near future, Philip hopes to clear out the clutter in his home, and to make a trip to Washington D.C, and a number of surrounding areas.

1ST THEME – PUZZLE 

Notes: 

2ND THEME – ORGANIZATION

• Notes: 
• Project Concept:
  • Willow: A small gadget that can be easily attached to tax-related documents, and when Philip needs them later, they will light up or make  asound. OR a small gadget that can be easily attached to photos and is linked to the scanned photos’ digital path in Philip’s computer, and as he re-organizes or groups the physical photos in some order, the digital paths can automatically update accordingly.
  • Ryan: Similar to the organization of the Physical Computing Lab, Philip can log where he stores a certain document. When he wants to search up where he stored it, it lights up an LED strip to show the location of the document.

Thoughts and Reflections

The meeting went on for 2 hours, which is much longer than we expected. We were not able to do an initial sketch of a possible idea as in our schedule. Philip tended to detract a bit from the initial direction of our discussion, which was entirely fine because he seemed to strongly emphasize his independence. We took this discussion as an opportunity to learn what he really finds enjoyment in his daily life. He found it difficult to focus on the scope of our physical computing project, where he stated no recognition of difficulties which could be within its scope. He often mentioned ideas of projects that he would love to see in the world, like robots that picks up papers and organizes them for him. However, he recognized a product like that is very ideal and not possible to make for students like us.

As far as our personal opinions go, Ryan and Chileshe tended to prefer a slightly more formal approach to the meeting, and Willow was significantly more casual. Her conversational style opened Philip to suggestion, while Ryan took notes, and Chileshe assisted in attempts to steer the discussion.

Looking back, we wished that it would have been possible to focus on the assistive device. Philip was extremely genial, to the extent that he was very open with the more difficult aspects of his organizational projects, which he perceived as requiring a form of AI not currently available. Perhaps providing more examples online of what Physical Computing students work on would have been more helpful to Philip, and to our discussion with him. ]]> https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/60-223/s2018/work/meeting-documentation/feed/ 0 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/60-223/s2018/work/initial-meeting-documentation/ https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/60-223/s2018/work/initial-meeting-documentation/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2018 06:03:43 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/60-223/s2018/work/?p=3236 Throughout this physical computing class, we have been learning both technical and design-based skills.  Each project has consistently pushed both our technical skills and design prowess further as more considerations are added.  This third and final project of the class combines all of what we have learned and built so far, and adds one other major challenge: creating something to help someone else.  For this project, we are creating an assistive device to help an older person. This assistive device is not relegated to the medical realm as the typical connotation implies, but can encompass anything from a retractable arm for grabbing things from the ground or a shelf to a motorized, self-stabilizing cane.

Our team, Enrique’s Gizmos, consisting of Matt, Alicia, and Nick, are working together to create such a device.  This device is meant to be designed specifically at solving a troublesome feature in one person’s life, and to accomplish this, we are meeting with an older individual, Enrique, to understand what their life is like and help ideate what could be created to make it better.

The meeting was held in a small frozen yogurt shop in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh on the evening of Friday, March 30th.  Matt, Alicia, and Enrique sat down over some frigid dairy and discussed our lives, what we liked to do, and, of course, what we could build.  Through many interesting conversations, drawings, and some demos of past projects, we came up with a list of important and intriguing projects including a GPS alert system and a brain-game compilation.

Agenda for the meeting

Matt presenting his Project 2

Enrique going through the projects in the course gallery

Meeting setup!

We learned a lot over the course of the meeting.  Though the main goal of the meeting was to come up with designs for our assistive device, we learned a lot about Enrique, as well.  For example, we talked about his family and what he likes to do. Some interesting notes on this aspect of the meeting was learning that he is a civil engineer who both teaches and has written a book.

The other aspect of the meeting was the project ideation.  One idea that Enrique really liked was some sort of tracking device for older people so that if they forget where they are or if they get lost, family members can find them. This could be a good project, except Enrique has no need for this because he doesn’t have Alzheimers and he said his family members can always find him with his “electronic leash” (his cellphone). We also learned that a lot of older people don’t want to try new technologies because there are too many and it’s overwhelming for them. They want to stick to the old tech that they are familiar with, but the new tech provides more functionality which they want. So, Enrique thinks that rather than creating new tech for them, creating services would be more beneficial. He said that he would offer a GPS tracking service rather than selling the tracking device because they’d pay for the service! However, since this project is to create a gizmo for Enrique, we’ll have to prioritize ease of use and motivation.

We also talked about how many older people are depressed and feel little motivation to improve their physical and mental health. This might be a difficult task to tackle because motivation stems from different places for different people. Enrique finds it hard to motivate himself to physically exercise, but he is able to find the motivation to mentally exercise by working on his book. Perhaps if we make him something fun and a little competitive, he can motivate his friends to exercise with him.  One idea that was brought up in terms of motivation was the possible use of a game or some type of tracking that would encourage people to walk a little more or do a few more mental exercises.

Some other possible designs that were brought up included an inventory system that would help prevent older people from collecting and forgetting about things they have, a compact heart monitor to be used as early detection before going to a hospital, a house information (heat, electricity, efficiency) tracker, and a gripper that mimics a persons hand for ease of use.

Ideas we came up with during the meeting

Second page of ideas

Our meeting went very smoothly. It was easy to talk to Enrique, and he had many things to say about our project, Pittsburgh, and life in general. We found that it was hard to follow the agenda exactly because our conversation flowed so well; we didn’t feel the need to prompt him or to push the conversation in a certain direction. We ended up hitting all the bases on our agenda regardless. At first we were a little worried that he thought the project was meant for older people in general because he kept talking about problems that older people had, but then he brought it back to himself with examples of how such a project would be useful for him.  Some of the final project ideas, though unique and useful, seemed a bit complex or outside of our scope. If we were to do the meeting again, it might be useful to include a specific section where we talk about daily or household tasks specifically to inspire other types of devices. Overall, however, the meeting was very enjoyable and we were able to create a number of ideas.

Introduction

On Thursday night (3/30), our group, Team Renfrew (consisting of Adriel, Arushi, and Monica), made a trip to an apartment in Downtown Pittsburgh to meet a wonderful couple, Rosemarie and Joe. The goal of our meeting was to get to know Rosemarie on a more personal level so that we may create a device that would address a problem in her life, but would also be aesthetically pleasing to her from a design standpoint.

The aftermath of the amazing spread Rosemarie prepared for our meeting.

Meeting agenda

What to bring: Phone camera, Paper, Pen, Macbook

Outline of meeting:

• Introduce ourselves, describe what we do as Intro to Physical Computing students
• Briefly describe what the point of the project is
• Engage in discussion about technology
• Ask questions to understand her interests, and any problems she has in life

• Explain project timeline

Discussion Topics:

• Our favorite pieces of technology right now
• What technology means in our lives today?

Questions:

1. What are your interests/hobbies/things you do for fun?
2. What does your typical day looks like?
3. What are your experiences with technology?
4. Are there any activities in your daily life that are frustrating?
5. Are there any recent activities that you change a way of doing things or interact with things?
6. What are the most important things in your life?
7. What are some things you enjoyed doing that have become harder with age?
8. Do you find transportation as a problem?
9. Do you think your social life has changed as you’ve grown older?
10. What do you enjoy/dislike about living in the city?

Meeting summary and major takeaways

Things she loves

• Yoga
• Reading – hosts book club in their apartment community room  (boods recomended from carnegie hall lecture series and new york best seller). Rosemarie reads about 2 books a week.
• Cook – loves finding new recipes, and tries to create a vegan adaptation of what she finds
• Travel – collects artifacts from all over the world
• Loves Downtown – goes to plays and concerts
• Grocery shopping
• Walking
• Learning – In OSHER program
• Her adorable dog, Renfrew
• Art – many paintings, sculptures in their home, as well as talking about art displays in public spaces in the city

Technology she has – how it satisfies/frustrates her

• TV & remote controls – sometimes too difficult to understand, prevents her from doing yoga through DVD
• Iphone – allows her to make calls, and Google things (her favorite personal technology)
• Mini Ipad – does not use it as often because of login wifi security problems
• Computer
• Iwatch – “does not use it to full capacity”, she knows it has many capabilities, she just isn’t sure how to access them
• Alexa – Joe treats Alexa in a direct way, Alexa does not always respond with what they ask for
• Fitbit – she uses it infrequently, Iwatch is taking over her Fitbit functions
• Wiifit – she enjoys the ability to do many different activities (bowling, running, yoga) from the comfort of her own home, she loves to win in Wii game

Improvements she would like to see in her life

• If things were more user friendly, she would use them
• Easier way to carry her groceries, she currently uses a backpack but would like to fit more things in it
• Not always comfortable alone on buses, relies on buses to get to Pitt or CMU
• Technology instructions – she would like for a person to walk her through the instructions, so they can address any problems she may encounter, thus allowing her to feel more comfortable with the technology
• Something to help her stay awake
• She always forget whats in her cupboards at home, too high for her and Joe to easily reach and check 

Thoughts on technology in general

• She loves technology, but feels she is illiterate about it
  • Will have Joe work it for her, if she can’t understand

• She likes how technology is new and interesting
  • ex) bridge lighting, interactive lightings based on data and human reaction

Thoughts after holding the meeting and discussing as a team

During the meeting, we asked many of the questions we planned to, and we got to know both Rosemarie and Joseph pretty well as people. On a person-to-person level, I think the meeting went great.  I think we did less brainstorming for new ideas than we would’ve originally hoped, but we learned a lot about things Rosemarie and Joseph enjoy in life and what they are passionate about as individuals. None of us expected such hospitality and investment/willingness to help in the project as Rosemarie showed us. Another key thing about Rosemarie was how connected her and Joesph were – I wasn’t sure if we should try to talk to her individually, but from the conversation it seems that they do almost all their activities together. Even though the meeting went pretty long (almost an hour and a half), at the end as we left, we were still asking questions, and talking as a group, so I definitely think we could have been able to talk more. Some questions I think we could’ve talked more on is what they think about communicating with friends and family (originally Rosemarie expressed it being hard to reach some other older friends, but talked about how much she loved Facebook). Also, as we were describing past projects, one of the couple labelled it as “interactive art” and I think that term fits perfectly – I wish we could have talked about art in this way more and about how “practical” or “interactive” art is a part of their life – it may have sparked some ideas. They talked about their love to travel and the places they had been, but when we asked about if they experience any difficulty packing, or in the airport, it seemed like they were very self-dependent (in most activities they did every day, this was the case), and there was no outstanding way to incorporate a technology into these. I think maybe if we had slowed down the conversation a little, we could get to the underlying ways in which technology could have helped them in small tasks doing Rosemarie loves such as traveling, hosting book club meetings, going on daily walks, etc. Overall, however, we though the meeting went very, very well and we look forward to sharing this relationship with Rosemarie and Joseph. We were so impressed by the hospitality the couple showed us and the experiences they were willing to share with us, and it definitely made all of our days!