Elder Health Augmented Reality Technique for Improving The Well-Beign of The Elders

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to design and create an elderly practice manual for mental and physical health with Augmented Reality (AR) application. This manual presents the information through print media in the manual. There are AR markers presents in the manual. The AR application called “AR4Elder” is the android operating system compatible software, it needs to be installed in order to use it to read the AR markers in manual. And another objective of the research is to study the results of the satisfaction assessment of the elderly practice manual. The satisfaction survey was conducted with the 30 elders sample group, they were using a manual of elderly with AR4Elder application through print media in the manual. The elderly practice manual consists of seven chapters, that are important to examine mental and physical health of the elderly as follows. 1. Optimal Diet 2. Physical Exercise. 3. Excretion
4. Sleep 5. Emotional and Stress 6. Social and Well-being and 7. Environment and Fall-prevention. These seven chapters presents elders-character animation with audio commentary. The research results are shown that there is overall satisfaction among the elderly who used the practice manual. There is a high level of satisfaction.