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N. González, A. Kämäräinen, O. Kalla, I. Vélez.The CONFIDENCE system: Older people’s input during the development process. ICT that Makes the Difference.Brussels, Belgium.22nd-25th Nov 2009
Abstract:
Globally, the population is growing older. This situation imposes new demands at the individual, social, and political levels. Concomitantly, information and communications technology (ICT) develops at unprecedented pace being present in every sphere of our life and throughout our life-span. It can be argued that we live in a context of benefit from and dependency on ICT. The CONFIDENCE project aims a providing an ICT support to older people who want to live independently for longer periods before a sheltered accommodation would be adopted. Similar research activities have been carried out also in Italy and Sweden. In this paper we only present the results obtained from individual interviews carried out in Finland. Older people (n =23, average age 75.5, range 65-92, female = 12, male = 11) were interviewed at the beginning of the CONFIDENCE project and at a second stage (n =10, average age = 75, range 68-88, female = 6, male = 4) when the system model had been described with greater detail. Briefly described, this system will be able to reconstruct the user’s posture and detect abnormal situations, such as falls or loss of consciousness.
