User Interface of Multimedia Delivery Platform

for The ElderlyN. Limdumrongnukoon, P. Mongkolnam and J. H. Chan

Data and Knowledge LaboratorySchool of Information Technology

King Mongkut’s University of Technology ThonburiBangkok , Thailand

Outline

• Motivation• Objective• Proposed Solutions• Introduction• Literature Reviews• System’s Design and Characteristics• Conclusion• Q&A

Motivation• The world is facing the phenomena of rapidly growing population of the aged, in which there are more elderly people than children• The elderly people tend to live longer and hence have to live alone and feel lonely in large part due to healthcare advancement globally and structural social changes • This causes a great deal of concerns for loneliness, social isolation, and depression among the elderly

Objective

• To improve effectiveness of multimedia delivery platform for the elderly

• The elderly can use tablet PC to send multimedia to family members and friends easily

• Use tablet PC to control the application on the smart TV instead of using remote control

Proposed Solutions• To design and develop an interactive (bidirectional) multimedia delivery system to deliver multimedia contents among elderly people, family members, relatives and friends, and healthcare providers.• The elderly can chat and send multimedia contents from a tablet PC via smart TV to family members and friends• The elderly can control the smart TV multimedia delivery application with ease by using our developed tablet PC touchpad features

Introduction

Number 60+

8%of total

worldwide population

Number 60+

10%of total worldwide

population

Number 60+

21%of total worldwide

population

Reference: United Nations, Ageing and Development Database 2014

1950

2000

2050

Percentage of the worldwide population aged 60 years or over

IntroductionPercentage of Thai elderly who live alone

1994 2002 2007 20112.00%

3.00%

4.00%

5.00%

6.00%

7.00%

8.00%

9.00%

3.60%

6.30%

7.70%8.60%

IntroductionProblems of Thai elderly living alone

Loneliness No care-

givers

Still need to work

26% 54%

20%

Literature Reviews

Window to the World

Staying Involved

Divergent Interests and Meeting Many Needs

Role of the television was studied in “Lifeline or Leisure?: TV’s Role in the Lives of the Elderly” by Reid in 1989

K. Reid, Lifeline or Leisure?: TV’s Role in the Lives of the Elderly, http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/lifeline-or-leisure-tvs-role-lives-elderly, 1989

Literature ReviewsH. Nicolau and J. Jorge examine text-entry performance and typing patterns of elderly users on touch-based devices such as mobile phone and Tablet PC• Typing error rate of mobile phone is more than Tablet PC• Mobile phone has an error rate of 25.97%• Tablet PC has an error rate of 16.55%

H. Nicolau and J. Jorge, Elderly Text-Entry Performance on Touchscreens, The 14th Inter-national ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Colorado, USA, Oct. 22-24, 2012

Literature Reviews• Alaoui et al. proposed an interactive social television system by using

user centered design (UCD) that could identify, classify and model elderly needs

• There are 4 activities, including watching TV, playing game, staying in touch, and participating in clubs

M. Alaoui, M. Lewkowicz and A. Seffah, Increasing Elderly Social Relationships Through TV-Based Services, The 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, Miami, Florida, USA, Jan. 28-30, 2012

Mongkolnam et al. proposed the television system which could deliver multimedia contents from family members, relatives and friends to the elderly people

Literature Reviews

P. Mongkolnam, J. Choomkasean, and J. H. Chan, Stay in Touch: Multimedia Delivery for Elderly People, Computational and Business Intelligence (ISCBI), 2013 International Symposium on, New Delhi, India, Aug. 24-26 , 2013

System’s Overview

Android TV box

ElderlyTablet

TV

Local network

Family

Server

Smartphone

Public network

Router

Internet

System’s Configuration

System’s Characteristics

• The multimedia information is sent by elderly people from tablet PC to destination devices. Multimedia contents could be texts, pictures, videos, or audios

• The elderly can control the cursor of the smart TV application, by using the tablet PC remote application

• The multimedia information is stored on the server, and usage logs are stored in the database

List of Hardware, Software, and Programming Languages

• Hardware– LED/LCD TV with HDMI port– Android TV Box– Android Tablet PC

• Software– Eclipse– MySQL Server– Apache

• Programming Languages– Java for Android– HTML5– CSS3– SQLite– MySQL

Design Criteria Based on the Elderly’s Characteristics

VisualAuditor

y

Cognitive

Dexterity and Mobilit

yReference : www.grandchallengestories.org

User Interface : Tablet PC

User Interface : TV

Class Diagram

Tablet PC Touchpad Sequence Diagram for Controlling The Cursor

Conclusion

• We propose a conceptual model of the user interface of a multimedia delivery platform for the elderly via smart TV and tablet PC

• The integrated system would be able to provide a truly two-way communication of sending and receiving multimedia between the elderly and their friends and family members

Q&A

Thank you!