Smart Senior (BMBF)

• Smart Senior [2] – Intelligent Services for Elderly People – is the largest of 19 projects funded by the BMBF initiative "Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme für ein gesundes und unabhängiges Leben – AAL [3]".
• The goal is to develop and evaluate new technologies for integrated and intelligent environments to preserve health, independence, and autonomy in the aging society.
• The Quality & Usability lab works on three topics within Smart Senior:

1. Development of semi-automatic methods for usability evaluation of ambient assisted living.
2. Definition of criteria for, and support of usability evaluation of prototypes and demonstrators within the Smart Senior project.
3. Definition of relevant user features, user groups, and user requirements, to establish a uniform interaction concept, which fulfils the requirements concerning intuitivity and consistency.

Cooperation

• We work most closely together with the DAI-Labor [4], Design Research Lab [5], DFKI [6], and our colleagues of Dt. Telekom Laboratories [7]. Among our other partners are the MPIB [8], FIRST [9], and TMCC [10].

Outcome

• An evaluated workbench for semi-automatic usability testing for applications and services suited for elderly people.
• Support and guidelines for our project partner during the development phase in view of applications and services.