Organisational Life Assistant-How gaming logics can raise the Environmental Analysis module acceptance

Abstract

Organisational Life Assistant (OLA) is an European AAL project that is developing technological solutions to allow seniors to be more independent, self-assured and to have a healthier and safer life in close communication with their caretakers. This paper focuses on a specific feature of our solution, namely, the OLA-Environment Analysis (OLA-EA) that provides the technological means to prevent hazard daily situations at home, based on space geometry or other indoor obstacles such as furniture. Game mechanics such as house scanning percentage of completeness or constant feedback while scanning could help in engaging users and, because it's a lone process, it could also benefit from multiplayer mechanics where the users could raise awareness about their own identified hazard situations by sharing them with others and thus increasing the acceptance of our service.

Abstract/Paper

Authors: T. Pedro, F. Gaspar, P. Caetano (Instituto Universitario de Lisboa)