ABSTRACT
Having articulated the theoretical and methodological starting points for our inquiry, let us turn to empirical analyses. In the next fi ve chapters, we shall examine the Vivago-Wristcare alarm and monitoring system for the elderly from its very inception to early stabilization of its uses. In this chapter, we shall focus on the birth of the invention and its conceptions of users and uses. In doing so, we elaborate theoretically how to conceptualize the role of professional practices in guiding imagination and in binding practitioners to some rather than other solutions. To understand the rise of this innovation, however, we need to depart from a wider development in elderly care and elderly technologies, and this is where we turn to now.
