The AMbient COmmunication for Sense Of Presence (AMCOSOP) project is aimed at elderly people, with the goal of reducing their loneliness and fear of isolation. This will be accomplished by providing its users a sense of presence with their relatives, friends, and health care personnel, and assuring that the elderly are never left alone. The AMCOSOP system encourages people to stay in contact with others by providing a clear way of displaying availability information of communication partners in an ambient way, while also encouraging its users’ to maintain social connections with people in their safety net.

In this project a software platform for managing communication and user-friendly terminal devices is developed. Information from people in the safety is collected and displayed in visible form to the elderly, giving them the ability to decide when to initiate social connections, other activities or connect to a service provided by the system.

End users participating from three countries are invited to join the project as they play a key role in the development of the user-friendly interfaces and systems. User-centred design methods are utilised and end users are strongly involved in the project already in the beginning.

With the system it is also possible to connect independently living people to service networks available in their region. As a new system is developed it brings new business opportunities for system developers, system administrators as well as for local system service integrators.

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