Session1. Trends, User Experience & requirements

The topics of Session 1 include, but are not limited to:

• new experimental research methods s (e.g. cultural and mobile probes, Living labs)  for identification of requirements of elderly users’ content creation and content sharing
• crucial user experience issues related to the support social participation and mobility through mobile devices and home media applications for the elderly  people.
• new technological solutions to support, motivate and encourage elderly people towards the creation and sharing of personal, self authored content and the convergence between personal communication and content.
• novel interfaces for elderly people for such as home based ambient displays advanced communication scenarios using a Participatory Design and user-centred approach that focus on users' cultural, social, behavioural and ergonomic backgrounds.

Session2. Design, development and evaluation

The topics of Session 2 include, but are not limited to:

• applications for socialization, to allow the elderly people to reinforce and extend their social context, sustaining, at the same time, independent living
• novel ambient services and  media networked applications that support existing and emerging social patterns among elderly people.
• suitable methodologies and techniques to prospect feasible and relevant user scenarios and design consequently appropriate application/s intersecting between mobile devices, PCs, ambient technologies  and iTV.
• Usability and design for all evaluation issues in these new applications (eg. in-situ based evaluation techniques and heuristic evaluation).