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Smart technologies promise to increase the quality of living and life - especially for elderly and impaired people. Following the “Smart City” paradigm, new challenges arise to increase the attractiveness of a residential district. This paper analyses driving and inhibiting factors in Smart Districts by a case study focusing the ageing society. It turns out that Natural User Interfaces can be seen...
Dementia is one of the most serious problems in aging society. Aerobic exercise has good evidence for its prevention. Walking and cycling are popular and practical aerobic exercises. However, elderly people have problems in the walking and cycling, which come from lacks of physical / mental functionalities and unsuitable traffic environment. To provide safe and human-friendly environment for walking...
We propose a new speech intelligibility improvement method for bandlimited synthesized speech, which is based on superposing high-frequency component on lower frequency signal (i.e., baseband signal), where the high-frequency component is compressed in the frequency direction to be fitted on the superposing zone of the baseband signal. We applied the proposed method to Text to speech and conducted...
The purpose of this study is to develop a device that combines exercise and entertainment. Therefore, we developed an application and the driving device to visualize the energy consumption during exercise. The first experiment utilizes the smart phone; the second experiment utilizes the action of jumping rope, handgrip, or playing a Kendama. The result of the test is that the driving devices responded...
Educational games mostly target children, often neglecting adults. To find out if adults are interested in educational games, we created and displayed one in an exhibition and used it to collect and study the audience's feedback and reactions toward such games. At the end of the experiment we found out that adult's interest in educational games changes depending on their age, and that they the will...
This research aims to propose a supporting system with sensor network technology and cleaning robots to alleviate workload of caregivers in welfare facilities. Our focus is to reduce the labor load of nurses that has increased with elderly population growth. On the basis of the system requirements clarified from a site survey in a nursing facility, this paper proposes an integration method of sensors...
In this paper we present a simple and convenient user interface for the elderly with an open source system platform used in smartphones. This design provides a simplified interface, a large font, a big button and a simple user interface starter for easy operation, and offers the elderly a method for those who are more accustomed to dial phones. Our design includes an improved selective reply text...
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