Towards a Social Fabric for Pervasive Assistive Environments
Towards a Social Fabric for Pervasive Assistive Environments
The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cannot access email, SMS or social networking websites; this includes many groups, such as the elderly, who can become vulnerable without good social contact. By enabling multimodal access to a variety of communication channels, including ubiquitous ones such as televisions and home telephones, this set of people can be included in such interactions. This paper describes a prototype pervasive messaging infrastructure for multimodal communications, and how it can be used as an assistive environment. Our eventual aim is to create a social fabric, a pervasive infrastructure layer to support more complex social experiences in the future.
Messaging, multimodal communication, ambient social experiences
Owens Hooper, Clare J.
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Millard, David E.
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Stanford-Clark, Andy
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9 January 2009
Owens Hooper, Clare J.
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Millard, David E.
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Stanford-Clark, Andy
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Owens Hooper, Clare J., Millard, David E. and Stanford-Clark, Andy
(2009)
Towards a Social Fabric for Pervasive Assistive Environments.
PETRA, Corfu, Greece.
09 - 13 Jun 2009.
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Abstract
The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cannot access email, SMS or social networking websites; this includes many groups, such as the elderly, who can become vulnerable without good social contact. By enabling multimodal access to a variety of communication channels, including ubiquitous ones such as televisions and home telephones, this set of people can be included in such interactions. This paper describes a prototype pervasive messaging infrastructure for multimodal communications, and how it can be used as an assistive environment. Our eventual aim is to create a social fabric, a pervasive infrastructure layer to support more complex social experiences in the future.
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Published date: 9 January 2009
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Event Dates: June 9 - 13 2009
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PETRA, Corfu, Greece, 2009-06-09 - 2009-06-13
Keywords:
Messaging, multimodal communication, ambient social experiences
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 267177
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/267177
PURE UUID: 95307a3f-43a4-4b44-b635-cfa7ce57aaca
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Clare J. Owens Hooper
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David E. Millard
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Andy Stanford-Clark
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