Towards a social fabric for pervasive assistive environments

Authors:
Clare Owens;David E. Millard;Andrew Stanford-Clark
Affiliations:
University of Southampton, Highfield Southampton, UK;University of Southampton, Highfield Southampton, UK;IBM, Hursley Winchester, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cannot access email, SMS or social networking websites; this includes many groups, such as the elderly, who can become vulnerable without good social contact. By enabling multimodal access to a variety of communication channels, including ubiquitous ones such as televisions and home telephones, this set of people can be included in such interactions. This paper describes a prototype pervasive messaging infrastructure for multimodal communications, and how it can be used as an assistive environment. Our eventual aim is to create a social fabric, a pervasive infrastructure layer to support more complex social experiences in the future.