Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population
Smartphones and tablets proliferation enabled by accessible prices and also by the inclusion of sensing abilities promotes their use in several areas, such as healthcare. It opens new horizons in the field of continuous and noninvasive monitoring and support to population, namely, to seniors. Despit...
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| description | Smartphones and tablets proliferation enabled by accessible prices and also by the inclusion of sensing abilities promotes their use in several areas, such as healthcare. It opens new horizons in the field of continuous and noninvasive monitoring and support to population, namely, to seniors. Despite the great benefits that mobile sensing and social computing could provide to increase elderly's quality of life, many studies have shown that elderlies deal with difficulty with Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In this paper we present a solution to overcome barriers between elderlies and their ICT usage in order to potentiate all the benefits provided from mobile sensing and social computing. A survey on guidelines, standards, and advice regarding usability and accessibility issues when developing solutions for elderly people was carried out. This survey was made having in mind that senior population have singular requirements due to age related changes and also frequently technological illiteracy. We have identified and applied the most important guidelines to our solution. A prototype was made using responsive design in order to be adaptable to any type of devices. Regarding evaluation, usability tests and semistructured interviews were conducted in real scenario. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5d4b094501ec4afab2a6dea148bc30432025-02-03T05:48:31ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-10-011110.1155/2015/820349820349Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior PopulationIsabel Marcelino0Rosalía Laza1Florentino Fdez-Riverola2António Pereira3 School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, University of Vigo, Polytechnic Building, Campus Univeresitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, University of Vigo, Polytechnic Building, Campus Univeresitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, PortugalSmartphones and tablets proliferation enabled by accessible prices and also by the inclusion of sensing abilities promotes their use in several areas, such as healthcare. It opens new horizons in the field of continuous and noninvasive monitoring and support to population, namely, to seniors. Despite the great benefits that mobile sensing and social computing could provide to increase elderly's quality of life, many studies have shown that elderlies deal with difficulty with Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In this paper we present a solution to overcome barriers between elderlies and their ICT usage in order to potentiate all the benefits provided from mobile sensing and social computing. A survey on guidelines, standards, and advice regarding usability and accessibility issues when developing solutions for elderly people was carried out. This survey was made having in mind that senior population have singular requirements due to age related changes and also frequently technological illiteracy. We have identified and applied the most important guidelines to our solution. A prototype was made using responsive design in order to be adaptable to any type of devices. Regarding evaluation, usability tests and semistructured interviews were conducted in real scenario.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/820349 |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Marcelino Rosalía Laza Florentino Fdez-Riverola António Pereira Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population |
| title_full | Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population |
| title_fullStr | Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population |
| title_full_unstemmed | Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population |
| title_short | Removing Barriers to Promote Social Computing among Senior Population |
| title_sort | removing barriers to promote social computing among senior population |
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