The connected vitality system: Enhancing social presence for older adults

Author

Achilleos, Achilleas P. ; Mettouris, Christos ; Papadopoulos, George A. ; Neureiter, Katja ; Rappold, Claudia ; Moser, Christophe ; Tscheligi, Manfred ; Vajda, L. ; Toth, Akos ; Hanak, Peter ; Jimenez, Oscar ; Smit, Riaan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 June 2013

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

206

Abstract

The social isolation of older adults in Europe is a key and continuously growing issue that demands immediate attention. Older adults might feel isolated and lonely mainly because they lack human contact and social support. This is because their closest relatives, such as their children and grandchildren, live and work at distant places, while contact with friends and care professionals is also rare. In this paper a tele-presence system is presented, which enables social presence and facilitates social interaction contributing to e-Inclusion of older adults. This is supported by the results obtained in this work based on the conducted user studies with older adults and expert evaluations.

Keywords

geriatrics; human computer interaction; multimedia systems; social sciences computing; telecontrol; user interfaces; Europe; connected vitality system; human-computer interaction; multimedia systems; older adults e-inclusion; social interaction; social isolation; social presence; social presence enhancement; telepresence system; Animation; Browsers; Face; Media; Servers; Streaming media; Visualization; Social presence; e-Inclusion; human-computer interaction; multimedia systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (ConTEL), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zagreb

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5984-9

Type

conf

Filename

6578290