Problems in Using Home Appliances by Elderly Persons Who Live Alone in Japan, and Some Design Proposals
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Japan is well known as the country which has highest population ratio of the elderly (65+) in the world. It exceeded 25% in 2014. In 2013, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan announced that there are 4.62 million dementias and about 4 million MCIs in Japan. That means about quarter of elderly have some cognitive problems in their daily life. Adding this, the family size of Japan become so smaller that 9.4% of houses were solitary household by over 65 in 2010, and is growing up rapidly. The authors interviewed 183 elderlies including dementias who live alone in own home or stay alone in daytime, using the ETUQ-Kobe method which is based on Everyday Technology Usage Questionnaire developed by Louise Nygard in Karolinska Institute Sweden. Through this survey, the authors found a lot of problems disturbing their independent based on their memory loss. The relatives or care givers tend to take up their activity or role in home after some mistakes happen. Then the independency drop in worth spiral. In this paper, the authors describe such problems and some design proposals to support their independent life.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".