Abstract
This paper presents the EasyReach system, a tool that aims at getting the elderly and pre-digital divide population closer to new technologies by creating a simplified social enviroment that facilitates interaction, trying to allow them to (i) easily keep in contact with friends and relatives, (ii) share their lifetime expertise, and (iii) avoid isolation. The EasyReach tool creates for the elderly a special social TV channel accessed by means of their own TV set and a specialized remote control endowed with gesture recognition, video and audio capture capabilities. A hidden personal assistant reasons on user preferences in the background allowing better focalization on his/her social interests. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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Bisiani, R., Merico, D., Pinardi, S., Dominoni, M., Cesta, A., Orlandini, A., … Bonfiglio, S. (2013). Fostering social interaction of home-bound elderly people: The EasyReach system. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7906 LNAI, pp. 33–42). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38577-3_4
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