Towards a Proposal of an Application to Promote Volunteering through Television to Help Older Adults

Rita Santos, Hilma Caravau, Ana Isabel Martins, Ciro Martins, Mário Rodrigues

2018

Abstract

This article seeks to present a proposal of a project that aims to develop a television (TV) application that allows older adults to ask for support from a group of volunteers in specific tasks, using voice to carry out some tasks. To this end, a review was made to identify projects that have been addressing TV and voice interfaces in the context of systems and services directed to older adults. The review also focused on initiatives that use digital technologies to support volunteering targeting older adults. In addition, a questionnaire was applied to a group of people considered to be among the groups of stakeholders of the abovementioned application. The results of the review show that, even with several improvements in the last years in voice interaction area, it is not yet generally considered in TV applications and there seem to be few applications that are focused on foster volunteering targeting older adults. Furthermore, the data obtained by the questionnaire reveal the existence of a set of factors that do not allow a generalized acceptance of the use of a TV application to ask for help from a group of volunteers, despite being recognized by diverse groups of stakeholders that this type of applications is important.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Santos R., Caravau H., Martins A., Martins C. and Rodrigues M. (2018). Towards a Proposal of an Application to Promote Volunteering through Television to Help Older Adults.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-299-8, pages 192-199. DOI: 10.5220/0006750801920199

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe18,
author={Rita Santos and Hilma Caravau and Ana Isabel Martins and Ciro Martins and Mário Rodrigues},
title={Towards a Proposal of an Application to Promote Volunteering through Television to Help Older Adults},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2018},
pages={192-199},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006750801920199},
isbn={978-989-758-299-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - Towards a Proposal of an Application to Promote Volunteering through Television to Help Older Adults
SN - 978-989-758-299-8
AU - Santos R.
AU - Caravau H.
AU - Martins A.
AU - Martins C.
AU - Rodrigues M.
PY - 2018
SP - 192
EP - 199
DO - 10.5220/0006750801920199