Supporting elderly people through ICT and universal design
To create a society in which elderly people can live their lives with peace of mind, the NTT Group is leveraging the latest ICT advances to develop new lifestyle support services, and employing universal design concepts in its products, retail stores, and services.
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Developing distance learning courses to enable students to learn universal design concepts
A distance learning course titled Web Accessibility: Creating Websites Easily Accessible to Everyone, developed by NTT LEARNING SYSTEMS in conjunction with NTT CLARUTY, was launched in March 2008. The course is aimed at promoting more widespread use of universal design concepts in areas such as website design.
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Developing a system to prevent slips and falls using technology that anticipates body movements
NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories is doing joint research with the Kanto Medical Center NTT EC on a system to prevent slips and falls. The system, which applies ICT, is based on a multi-sensor data processing engine that is capable of anticipating the body movements of patients. The system incorporates multiple sensors located on hospital beds which it uses to track patient head, shoulder, arm, and leg movements around the clock in order to predict when a patient is about to get out of bed. When the system detects that a patient in bed is moving to an upright position, it automatically alerts the nurses' station to help prevent possible injury.
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Remotely monitoring the well-being of elderly people
The Anshin Tele-chan service provided by NTT TELECON of NTT East Group enables family and others to check on the well-being of elderly people who live elsewhere through e-mail notifications that inform concerned parties of the amount of propane gas being used in the elderly person's household.
Anshin Tele-chan service overview
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Supporting nursing-care through video-based programs
In April 2006, NTT IT in collaboration with TelWel East Japan began offering Hatsuratsu Machine, a service for providing videoconferencing and video distribution-based preventive healthcare support programs to local governments and care providers through an ASP (application service provider). In May 2007, the service added two new programs – preventing dementia, and preventing malnutrition – to its lineup of other programs: bone fractures from falls, preventing urinary incontinence, and care to maintain function of mouth, legs, and lower back.
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Access to website offering lifestyle information to people with disabilities and elderly people exceeds 380 thousand hits in one year
Marking over 380 thousand page views in fiscal 2008, the Yu Yu Yu portal site provides access to information beneficial to the lives of people with disabilities and elderly people such as introductions to products with universal design features, and user experience reports.
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