Abstract
With the background of aging trend especially in industrialized countries sophisticated healthcare system installed in the house is expected to a powerful tool for keeping QOL of elderly. The term “sophisticated healthcare system” can have many definitions and also multiple perspective significance. Meanwhile, the author has recently focused on the finally showing technology of data for ordinary people including digital divide. Accumulated and analyzed data from ICT-networked sensors installed in the home must be shown to the subject in smart, not bothersome and/or easy way for any people including digital divided people. As the data providing system for ordinary people, augmented reality (AR) technology was introduced for easily implemented human friendly interface. Vison-based AR system has been attempted. As results, an example system is constructed with AR makers put on healthcare devices (blood pressure monitor and body weight meter) with networking function and another example is constructed with maker-less AR system. If one took a picture of healthcare devices with smartphone, analyzed data were automatically visualized on the display of smartphone.
