Social Windows for Elderly Nursing Home

Many elderly nursing homes have become increasingly isolated from society due to infectious diseases such as COVID-19. In addition, nursing care workers are also extremely busy due to the labor shortage. Therefore, we developed Social Windows to solve these problems. Social Windows is configured as digital signage in elderly nursing homes. Residents can communicate asynchronously and synchronously with their outside family members through Social Windows with simple touch operations. In addition, through the same Social Windows, nursing care workers can share information and work status with each other, as well as communicate with outside their managers. In this way, Social Windows is characterized as a common window placed between the elderly nursing home and society. We confirmed the effectiveness of the system through a demonstration experiment at an elderly nursing home in Nagasaki Prefecture.