Abstract. This paper presents the EasyReach system, a tool that aims at getting the elderly and p... more Abstract. This paper presents the EasyReach system, a tool that aims at getting the elderly and pre-digital divide population closer to new technologies by creating a simplified social enviroment that facilitates interaction, trying to allow them to (i) easily keep in contact with friends and relatives, (ii) share their lifetime expertise, and (iii) avoid isolation. The EasyReach tool creates for the elderly a special social TV channel accessed by means of their own TV set and a specialized remote control endowed with gesture recognition, video and audio capture capabilities. A hidden personal assistant reasons on user preferences in the background allowing better focalization on his/her social interests. 1
Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software - ONWARD '11, 2011
ABSTRACT This is a brief film describing the functionality and the inner behaviour of a system ca... more ABSTRACT This is a brief film describing the functionality and the inner behaviour of a system called Contexta-Care, a monitoring facility for independent-living elders. The first challenge for such a film is to give in a few minutes a fair idea of what the system can do in a real case. The target audience is first of all the geriatric health-care professionals but the system should be almost completely understandable by any person. The second challenge is that most of the "action" happens over many hours, days or even weeks and just showing the "real time" behaviour is not enough.
Abstract. This paper presents the EasyReach system, a tool that aims at getting the elderly and p... more Abstract. This paper presents the EasyReach system, a tool that aims at getting the elderly and pre-digital divide population closer to new technologies by creating a simplified social enviroment that facilitates interaction, trying to allow them to (i) easily keep in contact with friends and relatives, (ii) share their lifetime expertise, and (iii) avoid isolation. The EasyReach tool creates for the elderly a special social TV channel accessed by means of their own TV set and a specialized remote control endowed with gesture recognition, video and audio capture capabilities. A hidden personal assistant reasons on user preferences in the background allowing better focalization on his/her social interests. 1
Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software - ONWARD '11, 2011
ABSTRACT This is a brief film describing the functionality and the inner behaviour of a system ca... more ABSTRACT This is a brief film describing the functionality and the inner behaviour of a system called Contexta-Care, a monitoring facility for independent-living elders. The first challenge for such a film is to give in a few minutes a fair idea of what the system can do in a real case. The target audience is first of all the geriatric health-care professionals but the system should be almost completely understandable by any person. The second challenge is that most of the "action" happens over many hours, days or even weeks and just showing the "real time" behaviour is not enough.
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