Get Together – Tackling loneliness amongst older people
By nino in Research › Target groupon the May 2, 2010Get-Together is a project from Participle that takes place in London. Get-Together is a service that provides telephone-based and in-person social network for lonely and socially isolated older people. … →
Tags: london, Target group
Facial Expressions
By nino in Research › Web findingson the April 7, 2010Eyes play a major part in expressing emotions in combination with eyelids and eyebrows. Next in importance is the mouth. We are able to recognize and interpret the … →
April Fools with “Telepresence for Robots”
By nino in Research › Web findingson the April 2, 2010Do you miss your robot? Use another robot to keep in touch with it! You haven’t enough money to buy a PR2 from Willow Garage? Just let one … →
Tags: Commercial Telepresence Robots, Robots
Emotion Tree
By nino in Research › Web findingson the March 20, 2010This „emotion tree“ is a nice guide to the variety of emotions the human face can express. It gives us a nice overview how the different parts of … →
Tags: face, facial expressions, illustration
1928: telepresence with grandma on Christmas
By nino in Research › Target groupon the March 19, 2010We are currently reading the book from Matthias Horx: „Technolution – Wie unsere Zukunft sich entwickelt“. Among other things he writes about videocalling. Horx points out, that first … →
Tags: Communication, telepresence, trend
Interface Design Guidelines for Older Adults
By nino in Research › Target groupon the March 17, 2010To ensure that older people can use our device we need to understand the implication of age-related changes in functional abilities for the design and implementation of technology … →
Tags: guidelines, Interface, older adults
Touchscreen Landline Phone
By nino in Research › Web findingson the March 13, 2010Why should you use a robot, although a phone with a cam, a big screen and a microphone could do the same job? Especially for aged people we believe … →
Tags: Phone, teleconverencing
Pro Senectute Spots
By clavado in Research › Target groupon the March 12, 2010These are two touching spots about the lack of communication with elderly, produced by Pro Senectute Switzerland.
Pro Senectute is a non profit organisation, founded in 1917 to service … →
Wearable Robot
By nino in Research › Web findingson the March 5, 2010I can’t read the text, it’s in japanese; however, this wearable robot looks cool and it is a other approach of telepresence . Video 2005
Tags: Robots, Science, wearable, wearable robot