Disappearing computing for elderly assisted living

Author

Kakarountas, Athanasios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Bus. Adm., TEI of Ionian Islands, Lefkada, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

38

Abstract

In this paper, an application for smart devices targeting elders who need to stay at home almost for the whole day, and require assistance (either social or medical) is presented. The proposed application utilizes a TV set-top box that communicates via a low-cost board. The aim of the work is to design a system based on COTS products, to offer modified home appliances with which elder people are familiar and hide the HCI from them, consequently allowing elders to use typical Internet Technologies.

Keywords

Internet; assisted living; biomedical telemetry; geriatrics; human computer interaction; medical computing; microcomputers; set-top boxes; COTS products; HCI; Internet technologies; TV set-top box; elder people; elderly assisted living; low-cost board; medical assistance; modified home appliances; smart devices; social assistance; Medical services; Prototypes; Software; TV; Videoconferences; Weather forecasting; Low-cost systems in Medicine; Medical Informatics Applications for Mobile Devices; Singleboard computers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015903

Filename

7015903