Abstract
The challenges and opportunities that arise with the increase of older populations are drawing the attention of several sectors of society, as is the case of the technological segment. The development of technical solutions to improve seniors’ quality of life and promote their autonomous living is commonly found in the roadmap of research teams and companies. Reports and news show that the elderly feel several limitations and problems concerning the activities of finding and accessing credible information through technical solutions. Statistics and studies also reveal that older people have high levels of daily television consumption, which makes TV one of the ways with a lot of potential to inform seniors. Taking in consideration these two factors, it seems that information broadcast to elderly through television, without requiring a search activity, may be an idea with a lot of potential. In line with this, this paper reveals the process to define audio-visual content for seniors as well as a set of guidelines for the development of iTV platforms for this target group. Seniors’ preferences concerning the sound and text elements were gathered in two different moments in two different Senior Universities in Portugal.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Schneider, R.H., Irigaray, T.Q.: O envelhecimento na atualidade: aspectos cronológicos, biológicos, psicológicos e sociais. Estud Psicol 25, 585–593 (2008)
Schroots, J., Birren, J.A.: Psychological point of view toward human aging and adaptability. In: Adaptability and Aging, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Social Gerontology, Quebeque, pp. 43–54 (1980)
Scobie, J., Amos, S., Beales, S., Dobbing, C., Gillam, S., Knox-Vydmanov, C., Mihnovits, A., Mikkonen-Jeanneret, E.: Global AgeWatch Index Global AgeWatch Index 2015: Insight report (2012). doi:10.2196/jmir.2306
Kalache, A., Gatti, A.: Active Ageing: a policy framework (2002)
Silva, T., Abreu, J., Antunes, M., Almeida, P., Silva, V., Santinha, G.: +TV4E: interactive television as a support to push information about social services to the elderly. In: Conference on Health Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, CENTERIS, pp. 1–6 (2016)
United Nations: World Population Ageing 2015, New York, USA (2015)
PORDATA: População residente: total e por grupo etário - Portugal (2016)
Nielsen: Screen Wars-The battle for eye space in a TV-everywhere world (2015)
Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social: As novas dinâmicas do consumo audiovisual em Portugal 2016, Lisboa (2016)
Marktest Group: Portugueses viram cerca de 3h30 m de Tv em 2010 (2011). http://www.marktest.com/wap/a/n/id~16e0.aspx. Accessed 20 Oct 2016
Abreu, J., Almeida, P., Silva, T.: iNeighbour TV: A Social TV Application to Promote Wellness of Senior Citizens. Information Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Health and Social Care. IGI Global, pp. 1–19 (2013). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3667-5.ch001
Edewor, N., Ijiekhuamhen, O.P., Emeka-ukwu, U.P.: Elderly people and their information needs (2016)
Bruce, H.: Personal, anticipated information need. Inf. Res. 10(3), 1–15 (2005)
Troup, G.: Information and older people in Scotland (needs and strategies) (1985)
Barrett, J.: Support and information needs of older and disabled older people in the UK. Appl. Ergon. 36, 177–183 (2005)
Zou, C., Zhou, P.: Analyzing information needs of elderly people: a survey in Chinese rural community. Open J. Soc. Sci. 2, 109–115 (2014)
Everingham, J.-A., Petriwskyj, A., Warburton, J., Cuthill, M., Bartlett, H.: Information provision for an Age-friendly community. Ageing Int. 34, 79–98 (2009)
Instituto Nacional de Estatística: Censos 2011: Resultados Definitivos - Portugal (2012)
Espanha, R., Mendes, R.V., Fernandes, J.: Literacia em Saúde em Portugal - Relatório Síntese. Lisbon (2016)
Banco de Portugal: Release of the results of the Second Survey on the Financial Literacy of the Portuguese Population (2016). https://www.bportugal.pt/en-US/OBancoeoEurosistema/Cooperacaoinstitucional/ConselhoNacionalSupervisoresFinanceiros/Pages/PNFF_20161021.aspx#_ftn1. Accessed 9 Nov 2016
Swallow, D., Petrie, H., Power, C., Lewis, A., Edwards, A.D.: Involving older adults in the technology design process: A case study on mobility and wellbeing in the built environment. Stud. Health Technol. Inform. 229, 615–623 (2016)
Cancela, D.M.G.: O processo de envelhecimento. O Portal dos Psicólogos, pp. 1–15 (2007)
Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M., Spehar, B., Myerson, J., Hale, S., Rose, N.S.: Auditory-visual discourse comprehension by older and young adults in favorable and unfavorable conditions. Int. J. Audiol. 47(Suppl 2), S31–S37 (2008)
Nunes, F., Kerwin, M., Silva, P.A.: Design recommendations for TV user interfaces for older adults: findings from the eCAALYX Project. In: Proceedings of 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference Comput Access – ASSETS 2012, p. 41 (2012)
Orso, V., Spagnolli, A., Gamberini, L., Ibañez, F., Fabregat, M.E.: Involving older adults in designing interactive technology: the case of seniorchannel. In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (2015)
Stojmenova, E., Debevc, M., Zebec, L., Imperl, B.: Assisted living solutions for the elderly through interactive TV. Multimed. Tools Appl. 66, 115–129 (2013)
Silva, T., Abreu, J., Pacheco, O. Identificação de utilizadores: a chave para a personalização de aplicações de TV interativa para seniores? Commun. Stud. 14, 137–156 (2013)
Carmichael, A.: A style guide for the design of interactive television services for elderly viewers. Indep. Telev. Comm. Winchester 129, 2865 (1999)
Farage, M.A., Miller, K.W., Ajayi, F., Hutchins, D.: Design principles to accommodate older adults. Glob. J. Health Sci. 4, 2–25 (2012)
Czaja, S.J., Sharit, J.: Designing Training and Instructional Programs for Older Adults (Human Factors & Aging). Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, Boca Raton (2013)
Fonseca, I., Amado, P., Costa, L.: Desenho de interfaces para seniores: desafios e oportunidades no projeto SEDUCE. Rev. Prism. 0 (2014)
Caldas, A.C.S.: Tutoriais audiovisuais para o uso das TIC pelo cidadão sénior. Universidade de Aveiro (2014)
Hawthorn, D.: Designing Effective Interfaces for Older Users. The University of Waikato (2006)
Hansen, V.: Designing for interactive television. 1–40. (2006)
Fisk, A.D., Rogers, W.A., Charness, N., Czaja, S.J., Sharit, J.: Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches. CRC Press, Boca Raton (2009)
Pereira, L.: Princípios orientadores de design de interfaces para aplicações ITV orientadas para seniores portugueses. Universidade do Porto (2013)
Morrell, Q.W., Echt, K.V.: Designing written instructions for older adults learning to use computers. In: Handbook of Human Factors and the Older Adult (1997)
Pereira, L., Brandão, D., Martins, N.: Designa 2014. In: O Des. ícones no quadro das especificidades do indivíduo sénior. Covilhã, pp. 501–79 (2014)
Koutsourelakis, C., Chorianopoulos, K.: Icons in mobile phones. Inf. Des. J. 18, 22–35 (2010)
Lu, K.Y.: Interaction Design Principles for Interactive Television. Georgia Institute of Technology (2005)
Oliveira, R.A.S.: Acessibilidade na Web 2.0: criação de uma interface de apoio à leitura de tag clouds por utilizadores com deficiência visual. Universidade de Aveiro (2009)
Acknowledgements
The research leading to this work has received funding from Project 3599 – Promover a Produção Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e a Constituição de Redes Temáticas (3599-PPCDT) and European Commission Funding FEDER (through FCT: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. under grant agreement no. PTDC/IVC-COM/3206/2014).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Reis, L., Caravau, H., Silva, T., Almeida, P. (2017). Automatic Creation of TV Content to Integrate in Seniors Viewing Activities. In: Abásolo, M., Almeida, P., Pina Amargós, J. (eds) Applications and Usability of Interactive TV. jAUTI 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 689. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63321-3_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63321-3_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63320-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-63321-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)