A home-based system has been developed
that allows the connecting of elderly
persons with their families, friends
and other significant people over the Internet.
The resulting system uses ambient
displays, tangible interfaces and
wearable devices providing ubiquitous
options for interaction, and secondary
sensors for additionally generating
carefully chosen information about the
person’s wellbeing and activity that can
be selectively relayed to significant other
persons.
AGNES helps to enrich social networking
of elderly people who may be in danger
of becoming isolated and enhances
feelings of security and social connectedness,
without technical intrusion. The
technology innovation is an ambient interaction
with the social network, without
the need of using a computer and an
ambient and wearable display of relevant
information to the elderly.
The social network platform (Modern
Families) is already active on the market.
Ambient sensing is in product development
status (Modern Families).

http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/agnes/

• Western Europe and North America

• Older persons

AGNES helps to enrich social networking of elderly people who may be in danger of becoming isolated and enhances feelings of security and social connectedness, without technical intrusion. The technology innovation is an ambient interaction with the social network, without the need of using a computer and an ambient and wearable display of relevant information to the elderly.