Improving the Elder-s Quality of Life with Smart Television Based Services
The increasing number of senior population gradually
causes to demand the use of information and communication
technology for their satisfactory lives. This paper presents the
development of an integrated TV based system which offers an
opportunity to provide value added services to a large number of
elderly citizens, and thus helps improve their quality of life. The
design philosophy underlying this paper is to fulfill both technological
and human aspects. The balance between these two dimensions has
been currently stressed as a crucial element for the design of usable
systems in real use, particularly to the elderly who have physical and
mental decline. As the first step to achieve it, we have identified
human and social factors that affect the elder-s quality of life by a
literature review, and based on them, build four fundamental services:
information, healthcare, learning and social network services.
Secondly, the system architecture, employed technologies and the
elderly-friendly system design considerations are presented. This
reflects technological and human perspectives in terms of the system
design. Finally, we describe some scenarios that illustrate the
potentiality of the proposed system to improve elderly people-s quality
of life.
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of eldercare technologies", Proceedings on the 2000 Conference on
Universal Usability, pp. 72-79, 2000.
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"Knowledge about aging and worry in older adults: Testing the mediating
role of intolerance of uncertainty", Aging & Mental Health, vol. 13, no. 1,
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Master of Computer Engineering thesis, University of Malardalen, 2011.
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last access: Freburary 2012
[1] United Nations, World Population Ageing: 1950-2050, 2002.
[2] United Nations, World Population Ageing 2009, 2009.
[3] http://www.google.com/tv, last access: February 2012.
[4] F. J. L. Gomes, J. V. Lima, and R. A. Nevado, "An alternative for the
interaction with digital TV", unpublished manuscript,
www.ufam-automation.net/idtvec/acceptedpapers/W1_8_gomes.pdf, last
access: February 2012
[5] J. D. Fortuijn, "Daily life of elderly women in a rural area in the
Netherlands", Geo Journal, vol. 48, pp. 187-193, 1999.
[6] A. Bowling, A. Fleissig, Z. Gabriel, D. Banister, J. Dykes, L. M.
Dowding, S. Sutton, and O. Evans, "Let-s ask them: A national survey of
definitions of quality of life and its enhancement among people aged 65
and over", Aging and Human Development, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 269-306,
2003.
[7] K. K. Leung, E. C. Wu, B. H. Lue, and L. Y. Tang, "The use of focus
groups in evaluating quality of life components among elderly Chinese
people", Quality of Life Research, vol. 13, pp. 179-190, 2004.
[8] N. C. Davis, and D. Friedrich, "Knowledge of aging and life satisfaction
among older adults", Aging and Human Development, vol. 59, no. 1, pp.
43-61, 2004.
[9] T. Hirsch, J. Forlizzi, E. Hyder, J. Goetz, C. Kurtz, and J. Stroback, "The
ELDer project: social, emotional, and environmental factors in the design
of eldercare technologies", Proceedings on the 2000 Conference on
Universal Usability, pp. 72-79, 2000.
[10] R. Nuevo, J. L. Wetherell, I. Montorio, M. A. Ruiz, and I. Cabrera,
"Knowledge about aging and worry in older adults: Testing the mediating
role of intolerance of uncertainty", Aging & Mental Health, vol. 13, no. 1,
pp. 135-141, 2009.
[11] A. Walker, "A European perspective on quality of life in old age", Eur J
Ageing, vol. 2, pp. 2-12, 2005.
[12] T. Phiriyapokanon, "Is a big button interface enough for elderly users?",
Master of Computer Engineering thesis, University of Malardalen, 2011.
[13] https://developers.google.com/tv/android/docs/gtv_android_patterns,
last access: Freburary 2012
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causes to demand the use of information and communication
technology for their satisfactory lives. This paper presents the
development of an integrated TV based system which offers an
opportunity to provide value added services to a large number of
elderly citizens, and thus helps improve their quality of life. The
design philosophy underlying this paper is to fulfill both technological
and human aspects. The balance between these two dimensions has
been currently stressed as a crucial element for the design of usable
systems in real use, particularly to the elderly who have physical and
mental decline. As the first step to achieve it, we have identified
human and social factors that affect the elder-s quality of life by a
literature review, and based on them, build four fundamental services:
information, healthcare, learning and social network services.
Secondly, the system architecture, employed technologies and the
elderly-friendly system design considerations are presented. This
reflects technological and human perspectives in terms of the system
design. Finally, we describe some scenarios that illustrate the
potentiality of the proposed system to improve elderly people-s quality
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