Abstract
Online social networks have become part of our everyday lives. However, many elders do not use these networks even though social connections are important for their health and quality of life. To help elders feel more connected to their safety network we have developed an assistive solution based on the elders' requirements that aims at improving their communication and sense of presence. The prototype, consisting of a touch screen device and web services was evaluated in two field trials lasting for 28 weeks in total in Finland and in Austria. In addition to interviews, we used the logged usage data to analyze the user's experience with the system. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
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Pensas, H., Vainio, A. M., Garschall, M., Kivimäki, T., Konakas, S., Costicoglou, S., & Vanhala, J. (2014). Using ambient communication and social networking technologies to reduce loneliness of elders. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8531 LNCS, pp. 91–102). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_9
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