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A new tourist audio guide service for elderly people integrated in the mobile phone: preliminary results

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Unai Díaz,

Álvaro García,

Alejandro de FelipeAuthors Info & Claims

PETRA '10: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1839294.1839315

Published: 23 June 2010 Publication History

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VITAL (Vital Assistance for the elderly) is a EC funded 6^th Framework program project whose objective is to develop a set of technologies and applications with the aim to provide remote assistance to active 60+ years old users with normal cognitive ageing to improve their social network and context interaction, preventing them of being isolated and improving their quality of life. Within this context, the application known as Tourist Audio Guide is an innovative application for elderly tourists at their destination. The basic approach is to develop an audio guide that can be downloaded in a mobile phone to perform a simulation as close as possible to a human guide in the sense that the users will receive most of the information about a topic in "real time", allowing them to hear the explanations while they focus their attention on the "real thing". This paper describes the evaluation of the first prototype of this device with a small group of elderly users from the Community of San Sebastian (Spain), enhancing the problems and needs for further development addressed by them, which will be taken into account for a future improvement of the system's feasibility, usability and acceptability.

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DOI:10.1145/1839294

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