ELITE design: designing IT for the elderly

Eva Waterworth and John Waterworth
Interactive Institute – Q-Life Studio,
PO Box 7964
SE-907 19 Umeå
Sweden
and
Umeå University
Department of Informatics
SE 90187Umeå
Sweden
eva@tii.se
jwworth@informatik.umu.se

This paper outlines a strategy to design ICT for elderly based on experiences from a project called MAMA (Mobile Augmented Memory Aid). MAMA was a project that mainly focused on people with some kind of memory or communication disorder. The main goal of the MAMA project was to examine how ICT can be used to support and improve memory and communication capacity as well as being an aid to sensory stimulation for people with memory difficulties caused by dementia.

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