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Authors:
Zamikhaya Mapundu
Potjie Van Der walt
Thierry Simonnet
Solly Phatle Maswikaneng
Keywords: Ekiga; Videoconferencing; Leaving-Lab.
Abstract:
The main objective of this paper was to come up with a practical Voice over Internet Protocol approach to support elderly patients affected by Alzheimer disease in their daily activities. This will comprise by enhancing and integrating the existing Open Source features. The whole development embroiled the integration possibilities of voice, video and instant messaging services in order to improve communication processes between local Session Initial Protocol servers and clients. Part of the proposed work is the remote control tab feature that will be used to control the robot machine and the Living lab framework for knowledge creation and sharing. The preliminary tests and developments have verified that Ekiga softphone running on robot machine can accept and direct orders from Asterisks server in a form of audio and video. The information was gathered through literature review and this was conducted through the use of case studies, white papers, peer-reviewed conference papers and journals.
Pages: 74 to 79
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: March 23, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-327-8
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014