A livinglab approach to involve elderly in the design of smart TV applications offering communication services

Authors:
Malek Alaoui;Myriam Lewkowicz
Affiliations:
Tech-CICO, UMR STMR 6279, Troyes University of Technology, Troyes Cedex, France;Tech-CICO, UMR STMR 6279, Troyes University of Technology, Troyes Cedex, France
Venue:
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Aging is a new step of life with a lot of changes that could be related with physical, cognitive and social frailties. Rather than addressing autonomy and dependency issues for which a variety of assistive technologies has been designed, our aim is to define how ICTs could alleviate elderly loneliness, in order to cope with their social frailty. We make the hypothesis that TV is a good medium for this purpose and we design Smart TV applications dedicated to foster the social interaction among elderly. We adopt a living lab approach, which assure us of an early engagement of the end-users.