Transcript HERMES Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging

DAI‘09 – Designing Ambient Interactions for Older Users
18th November 2009
Arjan Geven, Özge Subasi, Manfred Tscheligi, John Soldatos and Mari
Feli González
Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging – Ref. FP7 216709
Goals of the workshop
Interdisciplinary AmI workshop on
multimodal interfaces to support
elderly life
• Focus on various „ambient“
interaction strategies
• State of the art in various
environmental interfaces
Main Questions in the workshop
– Is it possible to achieve a multimodal interface able to answer
different people‘s needs in
different domains?
– Does AmI technology support users
or does it rather increase
complexity?
Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging
Salzburg, 18th November 2009
Results of the workshop
• Infrastructure Plethora, home consoles,
RFID, wearable sensors
• Focus on"natural interaction styles" for
older people
– TV can display graphical user interface, use
multimodal elements (audio and video) and
requires low degree of expertise, remote
control is familiar to the user
– Utilize available devices to present adaptive
interfaces in the right context
– (Multi)-Touch as a way to provide intuitive
input mechanisms
– Speech for activities of daily living, here
privacy is not so much of a problem because
i am doing the things i am always doing.
Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging
Salzburg, 18th November 2009
Further outcomes and some sidesteps
• Awareness about the surrounding context simplifies
interaction -> Usable ambient interaction is
equivalent no interaction (or is it?)
• However: knowledge/awareness increases the
complexity of systems and increases the need to
make this actually easier to use.
• Improve interaction further:
– Inform the user about ambiguity
of„intelligent systems“
– Be inspired by children interaction
– Take responsibility
Kids interacting with a
cognitive game
Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging
Salzburg, 18th November 2009
Thank you for your attention
Thank you
Arjan Geven, [email protected]
Özge Subasi, [email protected]
Manfred Tscheligi, [email protected]
John Soldatos, [email protected]
Mari Feli González, [email protected]
Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging
Salzburg, 18th November 2009