NINFA iNtelligent Integrated Network For Aged people

In this paper we present the NINFA project outline and its preliminary developments. The project is based on a service platform suited for elder people called the Virtual Village Network, whose user interface allows to deliver at home different services. i.e.: user supervision, communication and interaction among users for social inclusion, exergame delivering, monitoring of the wellness status. The preliminary work done on ICT technologies acceptability issues and on the implementation of the User Interface (UI) and of the Human Computer Interface (HCI) is presented. The HCI we developed is particularly suited for elderly people and motor impaired patients because the interaction is managed only by finger/hand gestures and vocal control. Furthermore, the relationship between a sets of motor, linguistic and cognitive parameters evaluated during exergame execution and the wellness status of the user is investigated.