Analysis Responses

Block-chain based property registry

Category: User Experience

The use case aims to solve South Africa's titling problem by developing a blockchain solution that allows data to be stored in a decentralised, secure database which can be updated without any loss of historic data. The vision is to integrate this record into the Deeds Registry and unlock access to mortgages and other benefits for beneficiaries of the South African government's Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).

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Buddy4All project

Category: User Experience

Buddy4All is a research project building a bridge between generations to strengthen the social inclusion of seniors and younger adults. Buddy4All provides a novel approach to support older and younger adults, through:

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Co-Creation with Older Adults to Improve User-Experience of a Smartphone Self-Test Application to Assess Balance Function

Category: User Experience

This co-creation study aimed to develop a smartphone self-test application for balance and leg strength in collaboration between older adults and the research team. The paper describes older participants' preferences for, and their contribution to, the application design. The main results were participants' desire to know why, to get clear and appropriate information, and expectations of the self-test to be useful. It was feasible and valuable to develop the self-test application in co-creation with the intended user-group, in order to get direct feedback and suggestions for the development.

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Co-designing an Embodied e-Coach With Older Adults: The Tangible Coach Journey

Category: User Experience

Guidelines for the design of an embodied virtual coach for seniors from the NESTORE H2020 project

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Co-desing/Co-creation with older adults and informal carers

Category: User Experience

Interviews and co-creation workshops were conducted with older persons ( 65 years) and their carers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

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Connecting at Local Level: Exploring Opportunities for Future Design of Technology to Support Social Connections in Age-Friendly Communities

Category: User Experience

The paper discusses the challenges faced by healthcare and welfare systems due to the increasing number of older adults. It aims to explore how knowledge can contribute to the development of age-friendly cities and communities.

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Designing eHealth that Matters via a Multidisciplinary Requirements Development Approach

Category: User Experience

Specifying requirements in a way that truthfully translate the user needs is not a trivial task. In order to facilitate the creation of eHealth that matters, this article presents a practical, multidisciplinary requirements development approach which is embedded in a holistic design approach for eHealth that incorporates both human-centered design and business modeling.

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Detection of sitting posture using hierarchical image composition and deep learning

Category: Other

Human posture detection allows the capture of the kinematic parameters of the human body, which is important for many applications, such as assisted living, healthcare, physical exercising and rehabilitation. This task can greatly benefit from recent development in deep learning and computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel deep recurrent hierarchical network (DRHN) model based on MobileNetV2 that allows for greater flexibility by reducing or eliminating posture detection problems related to a limited visibility human torso in the frame, i.e., the occlusion problem.

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Effects of Virtual Reality Guided Meditation in Older Adults: The Protocol of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Category: User Experience

Virtual Reality (VR) based meditation has been shown to help increase relaxation and decrease anxiety and depression in younger adults. However, this has not been studied in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) in the older adult populatio

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ESSENSE - Higher education programme on building information modelling towards the development of smart environments for seniors, http://essense-project.eu/

Category: User Experience

ESSENSE consists of a transdisciplinary Strategic Partnership, bringing together higher education institutions, Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutions, business associations and representatives of social enterprises. Each bringing different expertise related to BIM, project management, Information and Communication Technologies as well as Smart Housing and Ambient Assisted Living, where collaboration will be reinforced on problems as important as the ageing population.

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