Within a few decades, the number of elderly people in Europe and Northern America will increase significantly. One of the challenges of this development is to keep elderly people integrated in society. We present a prototype for a Web 2.0-enabled ambient assisted living (AAL) device that offers easy-to-use functionality to help elderly people keep and establish new contacts, find events that match their interests and be aided in sustaining their mobility. An evaluation with probands from the target group indicates that such a device can improve an elderly person's social life.

Majchrzak, T. A., Jakubiec, A., Lablans, M. and Ückert, F.: Towards Better Social Integration Through Mobile Web 2.0 Ambient Assisted Living Devices. In: Proc. of the 2011 ACM Symp. on Applied Computing (SAC), ACM (2011)