INRIA-CEA Interactive Television

The goal of the ICI-TV project is to help seniors remain independent while living at home by staying in touch with close family, friends and care-givers. ICI-TV will provide a range of communication services on a home television, via a set-top box. Elderly users will use an intuitive, easy-to-use interface to access channels devoted to specific people: accessing that person is a simple matter of changing to the appropriate channel. Users may choose three levels of interaction, from low-level indicators of presence, to exchanges of photos and messages, to live audio-video chat. ICI-TV plans to transfer this technology to a CEA-based startup, called Praesto, by September 2009.

Research activities
  Human-Computer Interaction
  Input Devices
  Mediated Communication
  Communication Appliances
  Multiscale Communication
  Video Mediated Communication

Participants