User and Concept Studies as Tools in Developing Mobile Communication Services for the Elderly

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mikkonen ◽  
S. Va¨yrynen ◽  
V. Ikonen , ◽  
M. O. Heikkila¨
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Communication Services

Lessons Learnt from the Socio-Technical Design of Social TV Services with Elderly

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malek Alaoui ◽  
Myriam Lewkowicz
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Technical Design ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Social Tv ◽  
The Social ◽  
At Home

Encouraging elderly people to stay at home as long as possible is associated with a higher risk of social isolation. Nowadays, aging well at home cannot be reduced to the management of physical and cognitive frailties and technologies should also tackle the quality of life of the elderly by fostering their social interactions. However, designing appropriate services and ensuring their adoption remain open questions, to which we try to provide answers at the methodological and instrumental levels. The authors present here a Living Lab approach to design communication services for elderly people at home. They illustrate this approach by describing their participation in a European project aiming at developing and evaluating Social TV services and they conclude with recommendations for the successful socio-technical design of services that foster the social engagement of elderly people.

Using a Smartphone as a Track and Fall Detector

2015 ◽  
pp. 272-295
Author(s):  
Chia-Yin Ko ◽  
Fang-Yie Leu ◽  
I-Tsen Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Emergency Medical Services ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Individual ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
People With Dementia

This chapter proposes a smartphone-based system for both indoor and outdoor monitoring of people with dementia. The whole system comprises wandering detection, safety-zone monitoring, fall detection, communication services, alert notifications, and emergency medical services. To effectively track the elderly, the proposed system uses a smartphone camera to take real-time pictures along the user's path as he or she moves about. Those photos, accompanied with time and GPS signals, are delivered to and stored on the Cloud system. When necessary, family caregivers can download those data to quickly find a way to help the elderly individual. Additionally, this study uses tri-axial accelerometers to examine falls. To assure individuals' data is safeguarded appropriately, an RSA method has been adopted by the system to encrypt stored data. This reliable and minimally intrusive system provides people with dementia with an opportunity to maintain their social networks and to improve their quality of lives.

scholarly journals User-centric resource allocation with two-dimensional reverse pricing in mobile communication services

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-157
Author(s):  
Jinho Choi ◽  
Sang Yeob Jung ◽  
Seong-Lyun Kim ◽  
Dong Min Kim ◽  
Petar Popovski
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
User Centric ◽  
Reverse Pricing

Modeling relevance of mobile communication services by social setting dimensions

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-331
Author(s):  
Elena Menichelli ◽  
Richard Ling
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Principal Component Regression ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Channel Choice ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Negative Messages ◽  
The Relationship

There is little research examining the confluence of what communication channel is used for which purpose with which person. This study examines the “setting” for communication that includes what is communicated (e.g. positive or negative messages), the nature of the relationship (close versus distant), and the information channel. The respondents to a web-based questionnaire ( n = 627) were Norwegian smartphone users aged 16–35 years. Respondents evaluated mobile communication services that they used in specific social settings by “checking off” all that apply. Two methods of analysis are used to examine the material. First, a Principal Component Regression validated the main method, namely a mixed model for the Analysis of Variance. Results show the probability of using a mobile communication service is based on the effects of social group, communication purpose, communication channel, and their interaction. The relationship to the interlocutor was found to have the strongest effect on channel choice.

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