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This paper presents Care@Home, a smartTV platform integrating assistive living services for elderly in their homes. The SmartTV is acting as a user-centered ‘hub’ providing communication that connects the elderly to their formal care network, family, friends, communities, and provides services including household help, healthcare, exercise programmes and entertainment. The paper highlights Care@Home as a low-cost, personalized and open platform that is flexible and easy-to-use. We describe the human-centered design and first results from user studies.
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Fitrianie, S., Huldtgren, A., Alers, H., Guldemond, N.A. (2013). A SmartTV Platform for Wellbeing, Care and Social Support for Elderly at Home. In: Biswas, J., Kobayashi, H., Wong, L., Abdulrazak, B., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home. ICOST 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7910. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39470-6_12
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