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Hi all. Welcome to the first blog post of the project @ctive Life. Let’s start first by giving you all a little background about the project. As humans being a social creature, social interaction is a fundamental activity as part of our everyday lives. Nowadays keeping yourself connected to the near and dear ones is quite easy, thanks to the advancements in technology. However same cannot be said of the senior citizens who more often than not find themselves lost amidst this technology jungle. The basic idea behind the project is to encourage the social engagement and participation of the senior citizens using the social media for their well-being. To this end, we plan to explore the existing technologies and come up with the ways (social media service) that can help senior citizens seamlessly engage and participate using social media.
The team consists of Associate Professor Arianit Kurti, Professor Christina Mörtberg, Research Assistant Andreas Koczkas and Masters student Elona Dika and Suyesh Amatya. We had our first meeting [on 29th of April, Monday] where we discussed about the project in general, the ideas and the ways we will be moving forward in the next days.
We have already got some of the devices and gadgets that we are going to be using for our project.
We are in the process of, possibly, organizing a workshop with Aktiv Senior. It is an open network of people aged 65 and over that facilitates different activities, ideas and participation of seniors. With this workshop, we hope to get more insight about specific needs and preferences of senior citizens regarding social engagement, more particularly using social media. This in turn will also dictate the ways how we proceed with our project.
So this is it till now. We shall keep you posted with new activities in the coming blogs. Till then, bye.
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Welcome aboard! Linnaeus University student Elona Dikam, Professor Arianit Kurti and team members: Professor Christina Mortberg, with students Andreas Koczkas, and Suyesh Amatya are going to create a way to engage seniors in social media. They call their project “@ctive Life” and declare that engaging seniors is important to their well-being. Can’t wait to hear all about it!
After testing with Arduino for our smart classroom project, we are working on prototyping two boards (master and slaves) in order to gather and process all the information in the sensor network at the classroom.
The master board is responsible for interacting with the smart classroom, monitoring the temperature, the amount of indoor light and the teacher’s presence to turn on the projector, as well a graphic LCD display for monitoring all the components. This card works with a microcontroller Pic18f4550.
The temperature module works with a DHT22 sensor with a temperature range from -40 °C to 80 °C with a resolution of 0.1. The lighting module has a LDR sensor with high index of lumens and the proximity module uses an ultrasonic sensor.
All modules communicate with the slave boards via the XBee communication module.
