The workshop aims at:

• analyzing crucial user experience issues related to the support independent living and mobility through mobile devices and ambient technologies for the elderly people,
• sharing experiences about applications for socialization, to allow the elderly people to reinforce and extend their social context, sustaining, at the same time, independent living,
• what user requirements will help elderly people towards the creation and sharing of personal, self authored content and the convergence between personal communication and content as well as understanding the societal impact of this kind of  media activities,
• finding suitable methodologies and techniques to prospect feasible and relevant scenarios and design consequently appropriate application/s intersecting between mobile devices, PCs, ambient interfaces and iTV.
• identifying emerging nomadic cultures and lifestyles of elderly people and related socio-cultural trends as a relevant factor in ‘predicting the future’ of mobile social electronic media for the elderly people and encourage mobility among them.
• exploring the potential of novel user interfaces such as home based ambient displays and iTV in advanced and pervasive communication scenarios for the elderly people using a Participatory Design and user-centred approach that focus on users' cultural, social, behavioural and ergonomic backgrounds.
• making a roadmap of representative social features that encourage social use with mobile devices and iTV.
• becoming aware of appropriate techniques to evaluate usability and accessibility issues in these new applications for sociability with in-situ based evaluation techniques (e.g. user testing) and expert based evaluation (e.g. heuristic evaluation).
• investigating possible new interactive models and new ways of digital content for these systems;
• contributing to create and strengthen a multidisciplinary research community around the topic.