Social Networking Services could strengthen social ties of elderly people with family and friends. However, existing interfaces for displaying activity streams of people are inconsistent and complex and therefore not appropriate for most of the Elderly. The AAL project SI-Screen / ELISA focuses on providing new interfaces for accessing awareness streams of existing Social Community Networks and thereby reducing the complexity by hiding the technology behind. In this paper we propose the separation of device usage and technical configuration. Furthermore, we emphasize the development of new devices which are dedicated to their main purpose.    «

Social Networking Services could strengthen social ties of elderly people with family and friends. However, existing interfaces for displaying activity streams of people are inconsistent and complex and therefore not appropriate for most of the Elderly. The AAL project SI-Screen / ELISA focuses on providing new interfaces for accessing awareness streams of existing Social Community Networks and thereby reducing the complexity by hiding the technology behind. In this paper we propose the separati...    »