Interactive Games to Improve Quality of Life for the Elderly: Towards Integration into a WSN Monitoring System

Author

Lawrence, Elaine ; Sax, Christian ; Navarro, Karla Felix ; Qiao, Mu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun., Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

10-16 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

112

Abstract

The authors investigate the feasibility of using modern interactive games to help improve the quality of life of the elderly whether they are living in their own homes or in aged care facilities. Ultimately the aim is to integrate such technologies into their prototype health monitoring system called ReMoteCare, a wireless sensor network based system. It is hoped that a series of interactive exercises will help to improve the physical and mental health outcomes of the elderly.

Keywords

computer games; interactive systems; patient care; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; ReMoteCare; WSN monitoring system; elderly people; interactive exercises; interactive games; mental outcomes; physical health; prototype health monitoring system; quality of life; wireless sensor networks; Aging; Australia; Communications technology; Disaster management; Medical services; Remote monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Space technology; Wireless sensor networks; health; interactive games; sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, 2010. ETELEMED '10. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Maarten

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5803-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eTELEMED.2010.21

Filename

5432851