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Helping Elderly People and Persons with Disability to Access the Information Society

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Ambient Intelligence and Future Trends-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2010)

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NAVIGA is an European project whose main goal is to design and develop a technological platform allowing elderly people and persons with disability to access the Internet and the Information Society through an innovative and adaptable navigator. NAVIGA also allows the creation of services targeted to social networks, mind training and personalized health care.

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  1. Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Europea de Madrid, C/ Tajo s/n, 28670 Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain

    Diego Gachet, Manuel de Buenaga, Víctor Padrón & M. Alanbari

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematics , University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

    Juan Carlos Augusto

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  3. Departamento de Informática , Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

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Gachet, D., de Buenaga, M., Padrón, V., Alanbari, M. (2010). Helping Elderly People and Persons with Disability to Access the Information Society. In: Augusto, J.C., Corchado, J.M., Novais, P., Analide, C. (eds) Ambient Intelligence and Future Trends-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2010). Advances in Soft Computing, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13268-1_23

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