Paper Info
Title
From individual communication to social networks: evolution of a technical platform for the elderly
Abstract
One of the biggest challenges we currently face is to keep elderly people immersed in their social environment when they leave their home and enter a retirement home. Many of them feel isolated. The TV stands as their favorite media, and our first experiments showed that listening to vocalized local news and receiving TV messages and photos from family helped in fighting these feelings of isolation. With online social networks, we wish to involve the elderly in new types of interactions, more various and frequent. They will be more active and included in micro-conversations around multimedia contents. The retirement homes will benefit also from social networking capabilities. They will participate to the local news dedicated to the elderly people. In addition, the remote family will be informed of activities through an agenda and various publications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_19
ICOST
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote family,social environment,technical platform,various publication,retirement home,local news,individual communication,online social network,elderly people,vocalized local news,social networking capability,tv message
Social environment,Social network,Computer science,Computer security,Retirement home,Active listening,Digital Life,Feeling,Interpersonal ties
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6719
0302-9743
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.69
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cécile Bothorel18911.58
Christophe Lohr2357.00
André Thépaut3273.04
Fabrice Bonnaud490.69
Gilbert Cabasse590.69