Showing posts with label older adults. Show all posts
Showing posts with label older adults. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Good example of bridging the generations
AgeUK Barnet has teamed up with schools and colleges in Mill Hill, North Finchley, East Finchley, Colindale and Hendon to bring sixth formers together with older adults who would like to learn more about using computers. The free sessions are run at the AgeUK centres in Hendon and East Finchley.
I look forward to hearing about the outcome and success of those sessions in the future.
See more about the MiCommunity project here
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Paper: Mobile Remote Presence Systems for Older Adults: Acceptance, Benefits, and Concerns

I read this interesting paper by Jenay M. Beer about older adults using a remote robot to allow them to 'tele-communicate' with others in different locations (published in the Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction - HRI '11) The robot (with screen) was developed by Willow Garage's.
For me the main findings was the question about 'etiquette' on using the remote presence. Do we have an etiquette for using Skype?
Also, this concern must affect groups of all ages not just the older adults, or?
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