A LivingLab Approach to Involve Elderly in the Design of Smart TV Applications Offering Communication Services
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2013
Malek Alaoui, Myriam Lewkowicz
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This work makes the hypothesis that TV is a good medium for this purpose and designs Smart TV applications dedicated to foster the social interaction among elderly, adopting a living lab approach, which assures of an early engagement of the end-users.
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