Working environment for late seniors and cognitive challenged users
Late seniors and cognitive challenged users encounter difficulties when using common desktop systems and require assistance from their caregivers. They are also easy targets for cyber criminals. This project aims to provide a working environment suitable for such users and improve their security protection.
This work is in progress.
- Very simple layout for easy use
- All actions linked to familiar person photos or large icons
- Levels of security protection based on user mental ability
- Caregiver notifications to solve problems quickly
- Available as live ISO with persistent user data
- Email client for senior
- Web browser for senior
- Caregiver app for senior caregiver
The working environment offers these protection levels based on user mental ability
Very restricted
- Browsing limited to only whitelisted webpages
- URL links removed from emails
Moderately restricted
- Disabled text input on webpages except whitelisted, e.g., search engines
- Red-alert for emails with phishing URLs
- Caregiver notification on reply to phishing email including text
Lossely restricted
- Red-alert for phishing websites
- Caregiver notification of filled-in form on phishing webpage including text
- Red-alert for emails with phishing URLs
- Caregiver notification on reply to phishing email including text
Students can contribute to the development by their bachelor's and master's theses.
List of current topics is here (in Czech).