naa a22 4500 51073975X CHVBK 20180411083024.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12193-013-0118-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12193-013-0118-z AGNES: Connecting people in a multimodal way [Elektronische Daten] [Christian Peter, Andreas Kreiner, Martin Schröter, Hyosun Kim, Gerald Bieber, Fredrik Öhberg, Kei Hoshi, Eva Waterworth, John Waterworth, Soledad Ballesteros] Western societies are confronted with a number of challenges caused by the increasing number of older citizens. One important aspect is the need and wish of older people to live as long as possible in their own home and maintain an independent life. As people grew older, their social networks disperse, with friends and families moving to other parts of town, other cities or even countries. Additionally, people become less mobile with age, leading to less active participation in societal life. Combined, this normal, age-related development leads to increased loneliness and social isolation of older people, with negative effects on mental and physical health of those people. In the AGNES project, a home-based system has been developed that allows connecting elderly with their families, friends and other significant people over the Internet. As most older people have limited experience with computers and often special requirements on technology, one focus of AGNES was to develop with the users novel technological means for interacting with their social network. The resulting system uses ambient displays, tangible interfaces and wearable devices providing ubiquitous options for interaction with the network, and secondary sensors for additionally generating carefully chosen information on the person to be relayed to significant persons. Evaluations show that the chosen modalities for interaction are well adopted by the users. Further it was found that use of the AGNES system had positive effects on the mental state of the users, compared to the control group without the technology. OpenInterface Association, 2013 Ambient assistance nationallicence Tangible interaction nationallicence Wearable devices nationallicence Aging nationallicence Wellbeing nationallicence Social network nationallicence Peter Christian Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010, Graz, Ausria aut Kreiner Andreas Modernfamilies.net GmbH, Niedermayrweg 14, 4040, Linz, Austria aut Schröter Martin Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010, Graz, Ausria aut Kim Hyosun Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010, Graz, Ausria aut Bieber Gerald Fraunhofer IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany aut Öhberg Fredrik Radiation Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut Hoshi Kei Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut Waterworth Eva Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut Waterworth John Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut Ballesteros Soledad Facultad de Psicologia, UNED, Madrid, Spain aut Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Springer Berlin Heidelberg 7/3(2013-11-01), 229-245 1783-7677 7:3<229 2013 7 12193 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-013-0118-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-013-0118-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peter Christian Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010, Graz, Ausria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kreiner Andreas Modernfamilies.net GmbH, Niedermayrweg 14, 4040, Linz, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schröter Martin Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010, Graz, Ausria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kim Hyosun Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010, Graz, Ausria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bieber Gerald Fraunhofer IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Öhberg Fredrik Radiation Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hoshi Kei Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Waterworth Eva Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Waterworth John Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ballesteros Soledad Facultad de Psicologia, UNED, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Springer Berlin Heidelberg 7/3(2013-11-01), 229-245 1783-7677 7:3<229 2013 7 12193 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer