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O.Kalla , N. González Vega, A. Kämäräinen. The CONFIDENCE system and the contributions of older people during its development. AALIANCE conference Ambient Assisted Living: Technology and Innovation for Ageing Well Malaga, Spain – 11th and 12th March 2010, 1-7.

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The CONFIDENCE project aims at providing an ICT support to older people who want to live independently and autonomously. The system will be able to detect falls and other abnormal situations. The aim of the research presented in this paper was to obtain information on the end-users needs, attitudes and expectations, and to elicit user requirements for the development of the CONFIDENCE system. The results suggest that the participants would prefer remain living at home with the support of CONFIDENCE and would feel safer under continuous monitoring while they could trust that the system works and they get help in case of sudden emergencies. Most of them reported that the system would not violate their privacy and that they would learn to use it. The information on the end-users needs is an invaluable resource in the development of usable and acceptable technologies to facilitate their independent living.