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W. Spreicer, E. Ehrenstrasser, H. Tellioglu:
"kommTUi - Designing Communication for Elderly";
Talk: 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz; 2012-07-11 - 2012-07-13; in: "Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part I", Springer, (2012), ISBN: 3642315216; 705 - 708.

Getting older does not mean being merely excluded from digital worlds. Elderly can at least use the current technology to communicate with their friends and family members without toiling, on contrary with joy and easiness. We know this is not true yet. With our
research project kommTUi we do our part to get closer to this goal. In this paper we present our achievement so far. One of the outcomes is our approach to better design usable and user-sensitive interaction
for elderly. We further show how four design workshops, carried out in
two years, and tangible user interfaces we developed so far can generate and support playful environments with elderly. We finish our paper with the presentation of the final model of the new devices we are currently developing in our project.

User centered design, technology for elderly, participatory design workshops, tangible user interface, interaction design.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_105

Project Head Hilda Tellioglu:
Objektbasierte, interaktive Kommunikation zur Unterstützung des sozialen Austauschs im Alter