Browsing by Author "Gama, Mauro Diogo Rodrigues"
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- FollowThem: aplicação móvel para monitorizar crianças e idososPublication . Gama, Mauro Diogo Rodrigues; Brito, Lina Maria Pestana Leão de; Peralta, Laura Margarita RodriguezCurrently, there is a growing interest in developing mobile applications in an attempt to overcome loneliness, especially on the senior age group. This interest also extends to children monitoring. In this context, a mobile application developed for the Android operating system, designated FollowThem, is presented. Besides the mobile application, two other components were developed: a caregiver area and an information area. This mobile application is designed to monitor and assist elderly and children, in order to allow them to feel safer, while simultaneously providing support to their caregivers. FollowThem has an intuitive interface and offers useful features to their users, such as detecting their geographical position, proximity and falls, among other features not less important, that will be described throughout the work. The main difference between FollowThem and other applications residing on the market of mobile applications is the meeting of various dispersed functionalities as well as the introduction of several innovative functionalities. This work is guided mostly to describe the mobile application since this is the main contribution of this work. Its most important functionalities are described. The following components are also presented: a caregiver area, which is designed to provide give support to caregivers; and an information area, which is designed to clarify in what the system consists.