Interactive Games to Improve Quality of Life for the Elderly: Towards Integration into a WSN Monitoring System

Lawrence, Elaine; Sax, Christian; Navarro, Karla Félix; Qiao, Mu

doi:10.1109/etelemed.2010.21

Cited by 25 publications

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“…In [4], Lawrence et al research the feasibility of using modern interactive games to help improving the quality of life of the elderly people (living in their own homes or in elderly care facilities). They intend to integrate such technologies into their prototype health monitoring system called ReMoteCare, a WSN-based system.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of wearable devices in a wireless sensor network for an E-health application

Castillejo

Martínez

Rodríguez‐Molina

et al. 2013

IEEE Wireless Commun.

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Applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks for Internet of Things scenarios are on the rise. The multiple possibilities they offer have spread towards previously hard to imagine fields, like e-health or human physiological monitoring. An application has been developed for its usage in scenarios where data collection is applied to smart spaces, aiming at its usage in fire fighting and sports. This application has been tested in a gymnasium with real, non-simulated nodes and devices. A Graphic User Interface has been implemented to suggest a series of exercises to improve a sportsman/woman s condition, depending on the context and their profile. This system can be adapted to a wide variety of e-health applications with minimum changes, and the user will interact using different devices, like smart phones, smart watches and/or tablets.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of wearable devices in a wireless sensor network for an E-health application

Castillejo

Martínez

Rodríguez‐Molina

et al. 2013

IEEE Wireless Commun.

217

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“…We chose the Wiimote as the input device based on [8,13]. By reducing the use of buttons and requiring only approximate pointing, we envisioned that the Wiimote might be a good device for text entry in the iTV context for older people.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many older people want to live at home as long as possible, but they may need assistance to do so [8]. Interactive television (iTV) is a way to supply them with many services: video on demand, voting, social networking, bank services etc.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, Epelde et al showed that a TV remote control is unsuitable for older users: buttons and the text on them are too small and there are too many buttons [4]. Several researches have argued that older people can easily use the Wiimote [8,13]. They easily understand the pointing, but some buttons have been found to be too small and the "B" button behind the remote is sometimes activated involuntarily [13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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WeSlide

Godard

Pecci

Isokoski

2013

Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

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Interactive television provides useful services for older people. These include social networking tools, video on demand, and broadcast TV. Many of the Internet-mediated services require text entry. The usual multi-tap text entry supplied with TV remote control is not suitable to many older people. In this paper, we evaluate WeSlide, a gestural text entry technique that uses the Wiimote as the input device. We conducted a study to compare WeSlide with the multi-tap technique. WeSlide was faster and less error prone and users strongly preferred it over multi-tap.

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“…Gaming consoles that allow players to control games with their movement favour the development of these systems. For example, many of the games available for the Nintendo Wii console have been tested with seniors in several studies [94,96], almost always with positive results in terms of acceptance of the technology and increase of physical activity. There are also efforts to improve the design of these games to make them even more suitable [60].…”

Section: Applications For Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%