Topic: Computer Literacy and Smart Homes for Senior Citizens
Explanation: Our Research has two different side that coincide within one goal, which is to improve the lives of senior citizens by teaching basic computing and how to operate their homes with smart devices. The reason we wanted to start teaching computer literacy classes is to give them more confidence in technology and not to feel afraid of it. The lessons start off easy and get more complex as the weeks go along. Another goal we have for this side of the project is to create our own email server that we can use to teach the senior citizens with. We wanted to create the email service ourselves because we wanted to design it in a way that it is easy to read and navigate through each section and write emails. In the second session of our research we wanted to see how one can set up their smartthings devices to do different application that also use, the amazon Alex devices and to improve the lives of senior citizens. Another reason we wanted to conduct research on smartthings devices, because smarthings devices are becoming more and more less expensive each day so intern we could use thing in senior citizens homes to help them improve their lives. When implementing them in their homes they can let them know when someone is at the door, or when their is a leaky pipe that needs fixing. How it alerts them when something is detected is by alerting Alexa to say something or by alerting them on their phone. Overall our main goal is to help senior citizens by improving their way of life.
Explanation: Our Research has two different side that coincide within one goal, which is to improve the lives of senior citizens by teaching basic computing and how to operate their homes with smart devices. The reason we wanted to start teaching computer literacy classes is to give them more confidence in technology and not to feel afraid of it. The lessons start off easy and get more complex as the weeks go along. Another goal we have for this side of the project is to create our own email server that we can use to teach the senior citizens with. We wanted to create the email service ourselves because we wanted to design it in a way that it is easy to read and navigate through each section and write emails. In the second session of our research we wanted to see how one can set up their smartthings devices to do different application that also use, the amazon Alex devices and to improve the lives of senior citizens. Another reason we wanted to conduct research on smartthings devices, because smarthings devices are becoming more and more less expensive each day so intern we could use thing in senior citizens homes to help them improve their lives. When implementing them in their homes they can let them know when someone is at the door, or when their is a leaky pipe that needs fixing. How it alerts them when something is detected is by alerting Alexa to say something or by alerting them on their phone. Overall our main goal is to help senior citizens by improving their way of life.