Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160101368
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Ageing Bodies, Embodied Interactions and Social Inclusion. This project aims to design and investigate innovative technologies to establish meaningful social connections between older people who are constrained by limited mobility. Older adults who participate in social activities benefit from enhanced wellbeing, but social groups are often inaccessible for those in advanced old age, especially if living in rural areas. Emerging technologies, such as depth cameras and body tracking, can be used to augment limited bodily movement via avatars. These can be represented in virtual communities to foster social inclusion. The expected outcome of this project is a new technology that uses whole-body interactions and representational avatars to improve social inclusion for older adults in rural and urban settings.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2016
End Date: 12-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $340,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Virtual Reality and Related Simulation | Information Systems | Aged Health Care | Computer-Human Interaction
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ageing and Older People | Information and Communication Services not elsewhere classified |
