Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) has become a topic of growing
importance. On the basis of the internet as a wide spread standard
interaction media, numerous applications using information and
communications technology (ICT) have been developed for AAL. From a
sociological perspective these developments can be considered as
attempts targeting at social inclusion. How these technologies
should be installed: is the highest technical level the optimum, or
is an adaptation to the present level of personal abilities of
understanding and behaviour to be preferred?
Keywords: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL),
challenged person, ICT applications, mediatization, nudging, social
behaviour, social inclusion, social and technological change.