An Open and Adaptable Platform for the elderly people and persons with disability to access the Information Society. The Naviga Project Diego Gachet Paez, Manuel de Buenaga Escuela Superior Politecnica Universidad Europea de Madrid Villaviciosa de Od6n, Madrid, Spain {gachet,buenaga}@uem.es Abstract- NAVIGA is an European project whose main goal is to design and develop a technological platform allowing elderly people and persons with disability to access the Internet and the Information Society through an innovative and adaptable navigator. NAVIGA also allows the creation of services targeted to social networks, mind training and personalized health care. Keyword-component; elderly, wellbeing, ambient assited living. I. INTRODUCTION Today, developed countries have great difculties for effective health services and quality of care in a context marked by the population's ageing. This trend has dramatic efects on both public and private health systems as well on emergency medical services, mainly due to increase of costs and also growth of demad for more and better benefts by users as well as increasing people mobility. This demographic change will lead to signifcant and interrelated changes in the health care sector ad technologies promoting the independence for older persons. As representative data, the 20 to 64 years old make up for approximately 64% of the European population at present and the over 65 cover 17%, so there are 4 working employees to one pensioner approximately. On the other hand it is estimated that the 20 to 64 years old will decrease to 55% and the over 65 will increase to 28% for the year 2050, being the prior proportion 1 to 2 instead 1 to 4. The population in developed countries lives more due to the best live and health conditions, for example in North America only 4.5 % of population over 65 years old are living in nursing homes, a percentage that has decreased in recent years, the population of elderly people is constantly prepared for better ageing due to a reduction in disability, as a result the elder people become more active in their daily lives. Despite the improvement in conditions for carrying out ageing ad continue living actively, there are obvious changes that occur in the behaviours and skills in the latter part of life, these changes may include decreases in social relations and physical abilities, loss of memory and comprehensive and cognitive fnctions. Digital Object Identifer: 10.410BI CSTPERVASIVEHEAL TH2010.8882 htlp:/dx.doi.or10.410BICSTPERVASIVEHEAL TH2010.8882 M. Villalba, Pedro La Escuela Superior Politecnica Universidad Europea de Madrid Villaviciosa de Od6n, Madrid, Spain {maite.villalba,pedro.lara}@uem.es The actual trend is improving the quality of life of elder persons, not only extend its duration, the gerotechnology [1], is a very active application to improve the life of adult persons, considered a special users whose particular skills and needs on cognitive social and health levels must be taken into account during the process of designing any technological solution focussed to this group. Also, we must consider elderly ad disabled people have serious difculties to access the information society and the benefts it provides in areas such as eHealth or leisure. Older people ofen aren't comfortable driving a computer ad the technological devices seems to be complicated for them. This problem may worsen due decreasing of cognitive, visual, hearing or motor capacity. The Naviga project (2009-2012) is an European efort fnded under Eurostar [2] program and whose main objective is to provide these collective simple methods to overcome these barriers and enjoy greater personal autonomy and a better quality of life. To do this, the Naviga project will provide an integrated platform that facilitates a Internet access for all through their computer or TV, and also allowing employ alternative keyboard for navigation devices. In addition, the Naviga platform will have services that facilitate the incorporation of elders and people with diverse fnctional capacity to the Information Society using Information and Communication Technology to maintain their minds agile and involve them actively in his community of relatives and fiends, while allowing them to control their health. Moreover, as an open system, the Naviga platform allows connecting external devices, so users can connect vaious accessible devices as controls, buttons, or specifc sensors. Similarly the Naviga platform allows the incorporation of new services as well integrating the existing ones and provides a common interface for interaction with users. II. PROBLEMS TO BE ADDRESSED AT NAVIGA PROJECT The NAVIGA project intends to solve different problems that can be viewed fom diferent points of view: A. Target market: at this point there are the following markets