Designing for social iTV: improving the shared experience of home care systems

In Latin America, television plays a central role in our homes; it serves as a meeting point for family and friends and provides various services to viewers through interactive applications such as: serious games or health care. This paper describes the initial results of a research study on how groups of older adults interact in front of a television set with an application for health care, to establish the bases to design guidelines to create social television applications for the elderly.