This project targets elderly persons with or without impairments (motor, perception, cognition). The idea behind MobileSage is to provide the elderly with context-sensitive, personalized, and location-sensitive tools that allow them to carry out and solve everyday tasks and problems in the self-serve society when and where they occur, “just-in-time.”

This is made possible by producing and exploiting a mixture of professional and user-generated content that supports the help-for-self-help principle. Help can be provided both in the home environment and on the go. MobileSage denotes a personal agent on the smartphone, aiming to provide relevant, accessible, and usable content in a personalized and multimodal manner, and it exploits mechanisms for adaptive and learning user interfaces.

NR's contribution

NR is project manager and coordinator and involved in user requirement work, system design, implementation, and evaluation.

Benefit for customers

The solution can be used by any individuals (including care persons), companies, interest organization, authorities, and others. There are various benefits:

• Users of the mobile application can access personalized and context-aware help content on demand.
• The burden on care persons is reduced.
• Companies, manufacturers, and vendors can increase the number and size of their target groups.
• Authorities/interest organizations can provide added value to their citizens/members.

Benefit for society

Virtually all but in particular elderly and impaired users are enabled to stay active members of the society for a longer time.

Demonstration