TY - GEN
T1 - Reducing the entry threshold of AAL systems
T2 - 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2012
AU - Leitner, Gerhard
AU - Fercher, Anton Josef
AU - Felfernig, Alexander
AU - Hitz, Martin
PY - 2012/8/14
Y1 - 2012/8/14
N2 - Ambient assisted living holds promising solutions to tackle the problems of an overaging society by providing various smart home as well as computing and internet technologies that support independent living of elderly people. However, the acceptance of these technologies by the group of elderly constitutes a crucial precondition for the success of AAL. The paper presents early results from the project Casa Vecchia which explores the feasibility of AAL within a longitudinal field study with 20 participating households. Thereby observed barriers hindering the acceptance of technologies applied in the project are discussed as well as possible solutions to reduce the entry threshold to assistive technology.
AB - Ambient assisted living holds promising solutions to tackle the problems of an overaging society by providing various smart home as well as computing and internet technologies that support independent living of elderly people. However, the acceptance of these technologies by the group of elderly constitutes a crucial precondition for the success of AAL. The paper presents early results from the project Casa Vecchia which explores the feasibility of AAL within a longitudinal field study with 20 participating households. Thereby observed barriers hindering the acceptance of technologies applied in the project are discussed as well as possible solutions to reduce the entry threshold to assistive technology.
KW - Ambient Assisted Living
KW - Ethnographic Fieldstudy
KW - Technology Acceptance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864817878&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_106
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_106
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:84864817878
SN - 9783642315213
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 709
EP - 715
BT - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Proceedings
Y2 - 11 July 2012 through 13 July 2012
ER -