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My mum, who's got dementia, can just about work her portal to make and receive calls.
I've heard giving them an android tablet with Skype app set to auto-answer may be the most foolproof x-platform way.
Tablet with Kid/Kiosk mode to only allow one app? E.g. iPad with Facetime?
I tried doing that for my family and iOS has this wierd restriction where it drops all incoming calls automatically when you use Kiosk/SingleApp mode. Even if FaceTime is open in foreground.
When people make suggestions for this they underestimate how complicated their suggestion can be from a UX perspective. Sometimes your user is someone who can't text, longs for the days when a telephone rang and the UX was to simply grip the receiver and put it to their ear. Even a traditional tablet can be a pain because the user has to spend time finding the wake button when it's sometimes styled identically to the…
Heared some good stories about them in a podcast I recently listened. Not cheap, but the UI/UX should be very good.
My grandparents are in their early 80s or late 70s and aren't very open to learn new technologies. For the past 7 years they used and iPad (one of the early models 2nd or 3rd generations) and it served them well. I've introduced the the family contacts, put FaceTime and Photo library on the first screen and it seems ok for them. I've also annotated what volume button do and teach them that if they have a problem with…
When people make suggestions for this they underestimate how complicated their suggestion can be from a UX perspective. Sometimes your user is someone who can't text, longs for the days when a telephone rang and the UX was to simply grip the receiver and put it to their ear. Even a traditional tablet can be a pain because the user has to spend time finding the wake button when it's sometimes styled identically to the…
When people make suggestions for this they underestimate how complicated their suggestion can be from a UX perspective. Sometimes your user is someone who can't text, longs for the days when a telephone rang and the UX was to simply grip the receiver and put it to their ear. Even a traditional tablet can be a pain because the user has to spend time finding the wake button when it's sometimes styled identically to the…
You’re quite right. I tried to give my grandparents an iPad, but a few months ago I spent two or three hours trying to get them to reboot it and logged into FaceTime (over the phone). About half of that was literally trying to get them to reboot the iPad. They just couldn’t find and then hold down the power button. They were struggling to see it, and then struggled to hold down the button for long enough without rele…
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I tried doing that for my family and iOS has this wierd restriction where it drops all incoming calls automatically when you use Kiosk/SingleApp mode. Even if FaceTime is open in foreground.
You could also limit the iPad to running Facetime only in Apple Configurator.