Designing artificial companionship through explorative research in order to prevent loneliness in the future elderly of the baby boom generation

Buddy, is the result of an explorative research-through-design approach in the field of artificial companions. The main goal of the project was to create a prevention tool for alleviating feelings of loneliness. In order for this to happen the selected target group is people that are not old, yet, but are in transition at the moment, the baby...