Researchers in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) have long developed technologies for older adults. Recently, researchers are engaging in critical reflections of these approaches. IoT for aging in place is one area around which these conflicting discourses have converged, likely in part driven by government and industry interest. This article introduces diffractive analysis as an approach that examines difference to yield new empirical understandings about our methods and the topics we study. We constructed three analyses of a dataset collected at an IoT design workshop and then conducted a diffractive analysis. We present themes from this analysis regarding the ways that participants are inscribed in our research, considerations related to transferability and novelty between work centered on older adults and other work, and insights about methodologies. Our discussion contributes implications for researchers to form teams and account for their roles in research, as well as recommendations how diffractive analysis can support other research agendas.

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采用衍射读取推进人机交互研究：老化技术案例研究


人机交互 (HCI) 领域的研究人员长期以来一直在为老年人开发技术。最近，研究人员正在对这些方法进行批判性反思。就地养老的物联网是这些相互矛盾的讨论集中的领域之一，这可能部分是由政府和行业利益驱动的。本文介绍了衍射分析作为一种检查差异的方法，以对我们的方法和我们研究的主题产生新的实证理解。我们对物联网设计研讨会上收集的数据集进行了三项分析，然后进行了衍射分析。我们提出了这一分析的主题，涉及参与者参与我们研究的方式、与以老年人为中心的工作和其他工作之间的可转移性和新颖性相关的考虑因素，以及对方法论的见解。我们的讨论为研究人员组建团队并解释他们在研究中的角色提供了启示，并就衍射分析如何支持其他研究议程提出了建议。