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Assessing the Usefulness and Acceptance of HERMES MyFuture System in Two European Countries

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

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In this paper, the results of the first user trials of the HERMES system “Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging”, a research project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) are presented. In particular it describes how elderly users in Austria and Spain tested HERMES MyFuture, which aims to address prospective memory problems of elderly people by means of setting different kinds of appointments (time based, location based). In general, the system is perceived as useful and easy to use.

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  1. Fundación Instituto Gerontológico Matia – INGEMA, Camino de los pinos 27, 20018. Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain

    Cristina Buiza, Ana Belén Navarro & Mari Feli Gonzalez

  2. Center for Usability Research and Engineering, CURE, Hauffgasse 3-5, A-1110, Vienna, Austria

    Arjan Geven, Manfred Tscheligi & Sebastian Prost

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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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Buiza, C., Navarro, A.B., Gonzalez, M.F., Geven, A., Tscheligi, M., Prost, S. (2010). Assessing the Usefulness and Acceptance of HERMES MyFuture System in Two European Countries. 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_27

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