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GUIDed: An Augmented Reality Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform for Older Adults

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ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021)

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Abstract

The demographic trend causes a rising pressure on health and care systems. Information and communications technology (ICT) provides many appliances that may support older people in prolonging independence while reducing the pressure on health and care systems. Research provides insights into the needs of older people as well as insights into the suitability and usability of ICT appliances for older people. As a result, this work presents the GUIDed system that aims at supporting the independence and quality of life of older people by using augmented reality as the central element of the user’s interaction, whereby the paper’s focus is placed on the technical development. The system is comprised of five services that are related to older people’s daily activities or issues and social needs. These include the intake of medication, navigation, communication, smart home control and safety. Finally, a mobile application is included that allows older people to access all the services in an Augmented Reality (AR) interaction mode, while a conventional accessible user interface (UI) is also provided in the case an older adult prefers this as an interaction method.

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This work is supported by the European Commission as part of the GUIDed EU project funded by the Active Assisted Living (AAL) Programme Call 2019–under grant agreement no aal-2019-6-190-CP, and by FFG (Austria), RIF (Cyprus), NCBR (Poland) and RCN (Norway).

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  1. Kompetenznetzwerk Informationstechnologie zur Förderung der Integration von Menschen mit Behinderungen (KI-I), 4040, Linz, Austria

    Kale Strahinja Lazic & Stefan Parker

  2. Frederick Research Center, 7 Filokyprou Street, 1036, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Achilleas Achilleos

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 2109, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Christos Mettouris, Alexandros Yeratziotis, George A. Papadopoulos & Charalampos Theodorou

  4. Harpo Sp. z o.o., 27 Grudnia 7, 61-737, Poznan, Poland

    Karol Pecyna

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Lazic, K.S. et al. (2021). GUIDed: An Augmented Reality Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform for Older Adults. In: Pissaloux, E., Papadopoulos, G.A., Achilleos, A., Velázquez, R. (eds) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing. IHAW 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94209-0_7

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