@article{Nakazawa2018APF,
title = {A Platform for Mutual Watch-Over among the Elderly Using PAN and Gamification},
author = {Jin Nakazawa and Wataru Sasaki and Mikio Obuchi and Kazuki Egashira and Yuuki Nishiyama and Tadashi Okoshi and Takuro Yonezawa and Hideyuki Tokuda},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = {The IEICE transactions on information and systems},
volume = {J101-D},
number = {2},
pages = {306-319},
abstract = {This paper proposes a platform, called Kugenuma Happy Board, that strengthens communication among elderly in local community for mutual watch-over among them. The platform motivates users to join the mutual watch-over leveraging health-related data acquired from a personal area network (PAN), sharing selfy pictures of smiley face among community, and gamification techniques including missions, scoring, and rankings. We have conducted an in-the-wild experiment for 10 months in Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan. The experiment showed that the platform accelerates information sharing thus mutual watch-over among users. Particularly, we have observed that elderly users perceived other users activity from shared information, such as step counts and selfy pictures, thus strengthened human relationship in the local community.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}