MOBILE SAGE
Elderly will increasingly look for useful, user friendly and personalised ICT services that add value to their active and mobile life and that can help them to stay active despite various impairments. Users are involved throughout the process. User requirements have been elicited from three countries, Norway, Spain and Romania, Two innovative services are provided for the advancements of older people’s independence and mobility in the daily life, including in particular transportation and travel. The means is instantiated by a personal agent on the smartphone, which provides a help-on-demand service. This service offers relevant, accessible, and usable content upon request, in the form of multi-modal and personalised instruction and guidance, enabling people to help themselves. The main target group of the MobileSage service is elderly persons with or without disabilities (motor, perception, cognition), MobileSage also enables and promotes the users’ own generation of such help providing accessible and usable content.
