Societies in Europe and Northern America are changing. Within a few decades, the number of elderly people will increase significantly. One of the challenges of this development is to keep elderly people integrated in society. We present a prototype for an 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. The prototype we developed combines a Web tablet and Web 2.0 technologies in a novel way for this problem domain. To find out whether such a device would be accepted by elderly people, we qualitatively evaluated our prototype with probands from the target group and discussed strengths and weaknesses of the prototype with them. Our results indicate that while the prototypic implementation needs improvement, such a device can improve an elderly person's social life. At the same time they underline the need for further investigation.

Majchrzak, T. A., Jakubiec, A., Lablans, M. and Ückert, F.: Evaluating Mobile Ambient Assisted Living Devices and Web 2.0 Technology for a Better Social Integration. In J. Becker, K. Backhaus, H.L. Grob, B. Hellingrath, T. Hoeren, S. Klein, H. Kuchen, U. Müller-Funk, U. W. Thonemann, and G. Vossen, eds.: Working Papers No. 9. European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) (2010)