Contributo in atti di convegno, 2006, ENG

E-village: a virtual solution for real relationships

Morgavi Giovanna; Costanzi Carla; Florini Valentina; Morando Mauro; Aiello Maurizio

Morgavi Giovanna IEIIT CNR Genova, Italia Costanzi Carla Comune di Genova, Italia Florini Valentina Comune di Genova, Italia Morando Mauro IEIIT CNR Genova, Italia Aiello Maurizio IEIIT CNR Genova, Italia

Demographic change and ageing of the population is one of the socioeconomic challenges European societies have to face in the 21 st century. Loneliness and fear are common among elderly people. Both variables seem to be related to each other and were both found to be "threats" to a good life in old age. The automation of a domotic house shouldn't risk to take away the few social contacts an old user still has with human beings. This paper proposes a network architecture oriented to improve the quality of life of elderly people and their caregivers. The final goal is facilitating an independent and not isolated social life, inside one's home as long as possible . Contextually this architecture tries to facilitate the job of the caregivers allowing the communication with the elders and supplying the attendance with a smaller workload. A Virtual Call Centre (VC2) and a Village Network can give human support helpful for both user and caregiver.

5th WSEAS International Conference on E-activities, pp. 243–248, Venezia, November 20-22

Keywords

Domotics Elderly people, Village Network, e-communication

CNR authors

Aiello Maurizio, Morgavi Giovanna, Morando Mauro

CNR institutes

IEIIT – Istituto di elettronica e di ingegneria dell'informazione e delle telecomunicazioni

ID: 79856

Year: 2006

Type: Contributo in atti di convegno

Creation: 2010-12-03 00:00:00.000

Last update: 2016-04-13 15:54:58.000

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:79856