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Japanese society is aging rapidly, which has resulted in an increasing number of elderly people who live alone. Today, the confirmation of their well-being depends on inefficient methods such as telephone calls or visits made by social workers who are increasingly overstretched and in short supply. To tackle the problem, this paper proposes “T-c@re”, a status monitoring system using Twitter. The system...
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, disaster-related information through sharing social media has been gathering attention. We have studied a Twitter-based safety confirmation system named “T-@npi” as a web application, which is accessible by any web browser on any devices connecting to the Internet. The system enables users to submit and confirm safety information on Twitter...
We are studying a daily life-support system for the general public that consists of a community care system (CCS) application and community information network (CIN). CIN provides CCS with connectivity between an individual’s smartphone and city government servers, and at the same time it provides access to not only members of the public but also Internet visitors. This paper describes the concept...
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