Towards XR communication for visiting elderly at nursing homes
conference paper
Due to the current pandemic, the elderly in care homes are greatly affected by the lack of contact with their families, resulting in various mental conditions (e.g., depression, feelings of loneliness) and deterioration of mental health for dementia patients. In response, residents and family members increasingly resorted to mediated communication to maintain social contact. To facilitate high-quality mediated social contact between residents in nursing homes and remote family members, we developed an Augmented Reality (AR)- based communication tool. The proposed demonstrator improved this situation by providing a working communication tool that enables the elderly to feel being together with their family by means of AR techniques. A complete end-to-end-chain architecture is defined, where the aspects of capture, transmission, and rendering are thoroughly investigated to fit the purpose of the use case. Based on an extensive user study comprising user experience (UX) and quality of service (QoS) measurements, each module is presented with the improvements made and the resulting higher quality AR communication platform
Topics
ARAugmented RealityCommunicationConferencingImmersive MediaSocial XRVolumetric videoWebRTCAugmented realityDeteriorationHome health careHospitalsHuman computer interactionNursingUser experienceChain architectureCommunication platformsCommunication toolsDementia patientsMediated CommunicationNursing homesSocial contactsUser experiences (ux)Quality of service
TNO Identifier
967860
ISBN
9781450383899
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Source title
IMX 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2021 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media eXperiences, IMX 2021, 21 June 2021 through 23 June 2021
Pages
319-321
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