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AdaptNow – A Revamped Look for the Web: An Online Web Enhancement Tool for the Elderly

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014)

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Elderly population will become the largest age group of our society in the next twenty years. Consequently, we need to be able to accommodate technologies to the needs of this population. AdaptNow is a web-based application that allows users to adapt existing webpages and turn them more accessible and user friendly. Users can do so directly from any web browser thanks to AdaptNow’s user personalization and automatic adaptation artificial intelligence algorithms. In this paper we present the design and implementation of AdaptNow, a solution that improves navigation on the web for elderly users.

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  1. Madeira-ITI, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    Roberto Dias & Sergi Bermúdez i Badia

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  1. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69,, 4040, Linz, Austria

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  2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

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  3. THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2 rue de la liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

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  4. Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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  5. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 11/029, Vienna, 1050, Austria

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Dias, R., Bermúdez i Badia, S. (2014). AdaptNow – A Revamped Look for the Web: An Online Web Enhancement Tool for the Elderly. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_17

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