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Colombia is experiencing an important demographic growing trend, where the aging phenomena is more evident between the current populations. Most of the elders are affected by social situations. In addition, a lack of Telecare technology to support caring processes is exposed. In order to explore the introduction of Telecare approaches for elders in Colombia, a software prototype for a real low-SES Seniors Living Facility was developed. The main contribution of this work is the application of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) [8] principles and user-centered design (UCD) practices to formulate an Android software application for elders, taking into account all the challenges at this level of interaction, the kind of population under certain scenarios in Colombia, and also the creation of positive perceptions of the final software considering aspects of emotions, reliability of service and optimal user experience [4].
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In an official report of the Health Ministry of Colombia, Quindío was ranked as the third place in Colombia with the highest proportion of elders regarding the total population.
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The pictures from both figures have permissions of elders that participanted in the validation.
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Giraldo, F.D., Montes, S.G., Olarte, Y.P. (2015). An Android Telecare Prototype for a Low-SES Seniors Living Facility: A Case Study. In: Cleland, I., Guerrero, L., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations. IWAAL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26410-3_1
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