Assistive housing: Case study in a residence for elderly people

Ghorbel, Mahmoud; Arab, Farah; Mokhtari, Mounir

doi:10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth2008.2798

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“…We aim to expand our system beyond passive monitoring by adding the possibility of interaction with the patient. In [29], the authors suggest using a TV (a familiar interface) as a means for such interaction. Potential applications could include medicine reminders, personal assistant functionality, and home automation.…”

Section: Adding Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The smart condo: visualizing independent living environments in a virtual world

Boers

Chodos

Jianzhao

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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Providing affordable, high-quality healthcare to the elderly while enabling them to live independently longer is of critical importance. In our Smart Condo project, we have deployed a wireless sensor network in an 850-square-foot condominium for assisted living. The sensor network records a variety of events and environmental parameters and feeds the related data into our web-based system. This system is responsible for inferring higher-order information about the activities of the condo's occupant and visualizing the collected information in both a 2D Geographic Information System (GIS) and a 3D virtual world. The architecture is flexible in terms of supported sensor types, analyses, and visualizations through which it communicates this information to its users, including the condo's occupant, their family, and their healthcare providers.

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Section: Adding Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The smart condo: visualizing independent living environments in a virtual world

Boers

Chodos

Jianzhao

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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“…In this work, a TV-based caring videophone system is developed for the elderly. Firstly, due to the fact that TV represents the main activity for the elderly people [17], it is adopted as the display terminal to achieve low-cost and highquality service in this work. Then, considering the using convenience for the elderly, personalized designs, including photo-based address book, photo-click dialing, and touch pad based remote controller, are provided to make it more intuitive and easy to use for the elderly.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

TV-Based Caring Videophone System for the Elderly in the Smart Home Environment

Shen

Zhang

Jiang

2013

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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A novel videophone system for the elderly-care application is proposed. Based on the detailed analysis of the elderly’s physical and psychological characteristics, a TV-based caring videophone system for the elderly is developed: an embedded multimedia device is designed to implement the interactive video and audio processing and IP-based communication, in which TV is adopted as the display terminal to achieve a low-cost but high-quality service. Considering the user’s convenience, many personalized designs, such as photo-based address book, photo-click-dialing, and touch pad based remote controller, are developed to make the proposed videophone system more intuitive and easy to use for the elderly. Based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms, an evaluation model is also developed with the data collected from the embedded multimedia device. It is useful to evaluate the physical and psychological health of the elderly.

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