ENABLE --- A View on User's Needs

Authors:
Stefan Parker;Gerhard Nussbaum;Helmut Sonntag;Franz Pühretmair;Veronika Williams;Rachel Mccrindle;Christina Victor;David Oliver;Martin Maguire;Peter Mayer;Georg Edelmayer;Paul Panek
Affiliations:
Competence Network Information Technology to Support the Integration of People with Disabilities (KI-I), Linz, Austria;Competence Network Information Technology to Support the Integration of People with Disabilities (KI-I), Linz, Austria;Competence Network Information Technology to Support the Integration of People with Disabilities (KI-I), Linz, Austria;Competence Network Information Technology to Support the Integration of People with Disabilities (KI-I), Linz, Austria;School of Systems Engineering, Reading University, UK;School of Systems Engineering, Reading University, UK;School of Systems Engineering, Reading University, UK;School of Systems Engineering, Reading University, UK;EIWH - European Institute of Women's Health, Dublin, Ireland;fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Vienna University of Technology,;fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Vienna University of Technology,;fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Vienna University of Technology,
Venue:
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The ENABLE project, which is partly funded by the European Commission, aims to assist elderly people to live well, independently and at ease. In this project a wrist unit with both integrated and external sensors, and with a radio frequency link to a mobile phone, will be developed. ENABLE will provide a number of services for elderly people, among them also a remote control service for the home environment. This paper briefly describes the project in general and then focuses on the initial user needs investigation which was carried out in early 2007 in six different European countries. The provisional findings are discussed and an outlook on the ongoing and future project work is given. A special focus of this paper is on the environmental control service.