Addressing Interpersonal Communication Needs through Ubiquitous Connectivity: Home and Away

Romero, NA Natalia; Baren, JK Joy van; Markopoulos, Panos; Ruyter, Ber Boris de; IJsselsteijn, WA Wijnand

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39863-9_32

Cited by 17 publications

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“…However, in most cases parents use a practical reason to communicate as a pretext for a richer, more affective communication. This is consistent with earlier findings, as for example reported by Romero et al (11).…”

Section: Needs With Communication Mediumssupporting

confidence: 94%

Intra-family communication needs; how can awareness systems provide support?

Khan¹,

Markopoulos²,

Toledo³

et al. 2006

2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 06)

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This paper presents the concept of Ambient Awareness that pertains to using Ambient Intelligence technologies for the purposes of sustaining awareness between individuals or groups of people, over sustained periods of time. The first explorations of this concept are conducted within the context of supporting awareness for busy parents having young children. We sketch the requirements drawn from an interview study, involving 20 interviews with working parents and we identify unmet communication needs that this type of technology may support.

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Section: Needs With Communication Mediumssupporting

confidence: 94%

Intra-family communication needs; how can awareness systems provide support?

Khan¹,

Markopoulos²,

Toledo³

et al. 2006

2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 06)

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“…For the case of the photo album service (see Figure 11), it seems that it is by far the most appreciated service. We believe that this confirms the assumption that one of the most fundamental need of the elderly is the connection with the family -a need also indicated in similar research in pervasive awareness systems [22,13]. It is worth noticing that some of the participants were particularly concerned with privacy issues: "I like very much the service, but I don't want the photos of my children are accessible online by others".…”

Section: Usability Assessmentsupporting

confidence: 81%

Delivering elder-care environments utilizing TV-channel based mechanisms

Amaxilatis

Chatzigiannakis

Mavrommati

et al. 2017

AIS

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In this paper, we present a smart environment for elderly. What makes the development of such system challenging is that the concept of smartness for elderly brings to the extreme the idea of invisibility of the technology. In our experience, elders are well-disposed to new technologies, provided that those will not require significant changes-namely, they are invisible-to their habits. Starting from this consideration, 200 caregivers responses were collected by questionnaire, so as to better understand elders' needs and habits. A system was subsequently developed allowing elders to access a number of "modern web services" as standard TV channels: at channel 43 there is the health status, at channel 45 the photos of the family, at 46 the agenda of the week, just to mention few of the available services. The content of such services is automatically generated by the smart devices in the environment and is managed by the caregivers (e.g., family members) by simple web apps. Fourteen families were asked to install the system in their house. The results of these experiments confirm that the proposed system is considered effective and user-friendly by elders.

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“…In [18] the authors describe the short term trial of a system supporting the sharing of pictures which utilises a laptop-sized display situated in the family's living room.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring bluetooth based mobile phone interaction with the hermes photo display

Cheverst

Dix

Fitton

et al. 2005

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices &Amp; Services

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One of the most promising possibilities for supporting user interaction with public displays is the use of personal mobile phones. Furthermore, by utilising Bluetooth users should have the capability to interact with displays without incurring personal financial connectivity costs. However, despite the relative maturity of Bluetooth as a standard and its widespread adoption in today's mobile phones, little exploration seems to have taken place in this area -despite its apparent significant potential. This paper describe the findings of an exploratory study involving our Hermes Photo Display which has been extended to enable users with a suitable phone to both send and receive pictures over Bluetooth. We present both the technical challenges of working with Bluetooth and, through our user study, we present initial insights into general user acceptability issues and the potential for such a display to facilitate notions of community.

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Addressing Interpersonal Communication Needs through Ubiquitous Connectivity: Home and Away

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Intra-family communication needs; how can awareness systems provide support?

Intra-family communication needs; how can awareness systems provide support?

Delivering elder-care environments utilizing TV-channel based mechanisms

Exploring bluetooth based mobile phone interaction with the hermes photo display

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