A Digital Twin City Model for Age-Friendly Communities: Capturing Environmental Distress from Multimodal Sensory Data

Ham, Youngjib; Kim, Jin-Woo; Kim, Jaeyoon

doi:10.24251/hicss.2020.206

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“…The physiological responses of older adult pedestrians can be reflective of human experience toward a surrounding environment, providing us unique insights into the elements of the urban built environments (e.g., neighborhood disorders and environmental barriers) ( 19 – 23 ). Various types of physiological response data including gait patterns, electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate and brain activity ( 22 , 24 – 26 ) have been have been investigated from collected physiological signals in virtual environments ( 27 – 29 ) naturalistic ambulatory settings and daily life locations, such as neighborhoods, downtown, urban parks, and university campuses ( 18 , 20 , 22 , 23 , 30 – 35 ). See Table 1 for a full list of references ( 18 – 32 , 36 – 55 ).…”

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Use of Connected Technologies to Assess Barriers and Stressors for Age and Disability-Friendly Communities

Zanwar

Kim

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: The benefits of engaging in outdoor physical activity are numerous for older adults. However, previous work on outdoor monitoring of physical activities did not sufficiently identify how older adults characterize and respond to diverse elements of urban built environments, including structural characteristics, safety attributes, and aesthetics.Objective: To synthesize emerging multidisciplinary trends on the use of connected technologies to assess environmental barriers and stressors among older adults and for persons with disability.Methods: A multidisciplinary overview and literature synthesis.Results: First, we review measurement and monitoring of outdoor physical activity in community environments and during transport using wearable sensing technologies, their contextualization and using smartphone-based applications. We describe physiological responses (e.g., gait patterns, electrodermal activity, brain activity, and heart rate), stressors and physical barriers during outdoor physical activity. Second, we review the use of visual data (e.g., Google street images, Street score) and machine learning algorithms to assess physical (e.g., walkability) and emotional stressors (e.g., stress) in community environments and their impact on human perception. Third, we synthesize the challenges and limitations of using real-time smartphone-based data on driving behavior, incompatibility with software data platforms, and the potential for such data to be confounded by environmental signals in older adults. Lastly, we summarize alternative modes of transport for older adults and for persons with disability.Conclusion: Environmental design for connected technologies, interventions to promote independence and mobility, and to reduce barriers and stressors, likely requires smart connected age and disability-friendly communities and cities.

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Use of Connected Technologies to Assess Barriers and Stressors for Age and Disability-Friendly Communities

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Kim

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“…These challenges are especially difficult in the context of program monitoring and accountability structures that have traditionally oriented to single program elements, service units, and quantitative measures of change over short periods. Moreover, the broad focus of the AFCC movement raises both opportunities and questions as to how AFCC efforts fit with other place-based campaigns, such as those related to social determinants of health, environmental sustainability, smart cities, livability, and economic development (for an example, see Ahn et al, 2020). Strategically aligning AFCC efforts with these related-yet-distinct agendas -while not losing focus on aging, longevity, older adults, and later life -presents another key challenge.…”

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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: Research to Strengthen Policy and Practice

Greenfield

Buffel

2022

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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Since the early 2000s, a global age-friendly movement has emerged with aspirations to make environments and systems within localities more supportive of long and healthy lives. Despite growth in the social movement over the past decade, research on how to work toward community change, especially in systematic and comprehensive ways across diverse geopolitical and sociocultural contexts, has been relatively slower to develop. This special issue of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy aims to accelerate this area. It features articles that advance knowledge on processes and contexts toward enhancing the age-friendliness of cities and communities. In this introductory essay, we provide background on the age-friendly cities and communities movement -including its accomplishments alongside key challenges. We then discuss the importance of research at the intersection of policy and practice to strengthen the movement into the 21st century. Next, we introduce the articles in this special issue, organized under four themes: implementation and sustainability processes; partnerships and multisectoral collaboration; theory-based program design; and policy and practice diffusion. A final article provides an overview of the career contributions of Dr. Frank Caro, an age-friendly champion and gerontologist to whom this special issue is dedicated.

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“…A further issue is that different chronic diseases have a prolonged course, are frequently recurrent, progress slowly, and are expensive and difficult to detect and manage. In addition, the world is facing the problem of an aging population, so it is necessary to consider more intelligent life monitoring for the elderly [88][89][90] [6]. HDT technology offers new opportunities for healthcare.…”

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Human Digital Twin: A Survey

Lin

Chen

Ali

et al. 2022

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Digital twin has recently attracted growing attention, leading to intensive research and applications. Along with this, a new research area, dubbed as "human digital twin" (HDT), has emerged. Similar to the conception of digital twin, HDT is referred to as the replica of a physical-world human in the digital world. Nevertheless, HDT is much more complicated and delicate compared to digital twins of any physical systems and processes, due to humans' dynamic and evolutionary nature, including physical, behavioral, social, physiological, psychological, cognitive, and biological dimensions. Studies on HDT are limited, and the research is still in its infancy. In this paper, we first examine the inception, development, and application of the digital twin concept, providing a context within which we formally define and characterize HDT based on the similarities and differences between digital twin and HDT. Then we conduct an extensive literature review on HDT research, analyzing underpinning technologies and establishing typical frameworks in which the core HDT functions or components are organized. Built upon the findings from the above work, we propose a generic architecture for the HDT system and describe the core function blocks and corresponding technologies. Following this, we present the state of the art of HDT technologies and applications in the healthcare, industry, and daily life domain. Finally, we discuss various issues related to the development of HDT and point out the trends and challenges of future HDT research and development.

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A Digital Twin City Model for Age-Friendly Communities: Capturing Environmental Distress from Multimodal Sensory Data

Abstract: As the worldwide population is aging, the demands of aging-in-place are also increasing and require smarter and more connected cities to keep mobility independence of older adults.

Cited by 19 publications

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Use of Connected Technologies to Assess Barriers and Stressors for Age and Disability-Friendly Communities

Use of Connected Technologies to Assess Barriers and Stressors for Age and Disability-Friendly Communities

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: Research to Strengthen Policy and Practice

Human Digital Twin: A Survey

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