Hello Grandma ;)

By addressing the conditions of the lives of the elderly, Old Dear connects the elderly better with their loved ones. The aim of this project is to develop adapters between the connective tools we use (internet telephony, SMS, chat etc.) and the ones the elderly use (TV, phone, snail mail). Simplified devices for the elderly and increased convenience for connective technology users will facilitate more frequent and better quality interactions. The aim is also to increase the presence of family and friends in the lives of the elderly. There will be parallel services offered, some targeted toward us as primary users and some toward the elderly. Main tenets of our design remained consistent throughout our process: that the product work with existing technology, the content should be presented in a fool proof way to the elderly, and that these products should increase convenience, and therefore use, among standard technology users.

Hello Grandma ;-) is a service that converts texts or emails to an easily readable oversize postcard and delivers them to the door of the recipient.

These products were developed through 5 visits and prototyping with the residents and employees of Betania Nursing home. Our original motivation, to foster intergenerational relationships, remained intact, however, through conversational interviews, we discovered exactly what kind of relationships matter to the elderly. The elderly want to have better connections with the people they already know and love and are not as interested in meeting new friends. They said that they wanted pen pals, or new friends locally and from around the world, however these needs are secondary to the primary desire to connect with their families.

OLD DEAR is:

Martijn The
The Hague, The Netherlands

Marie Hugsted
Copenhagen, Denmark

Sarasiff Kjærgård
Copenhagen, Denmark

David Salazar Masip
Spain (Madrid)

Julie Phanstiel
Los Angeles, CA

This project was made during INDEX:CIID Summer camp 2007. http://www.ciid.dk/

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Tags:

• ciid
• index
• elderly
• design
• sms
• postcard
• service
• global
• challenges
• grandma
• grandpa
• gramps
• generation
• bridge

[ChooseMyFamily]

nice idea!

[benedicto16]

shut the fuck up! like being controlled? :) k

[grandpasnail]

wat da fuk!?