Co-creating with consumers and stakeholders to understand the benefit of Internet of Things in Smart Living Environments for Ageing Well: the approach adopted in the Madrid Deployment Site of the ACTIVAGE Large Scale Pilot

Fico, Giuseppe; Montalva, Juan-Bautista; Medrano, Alejandro; Liappas, Nikolaos; Mata-Díaz, Angeles; Cea, Gloria; Arredondo, María Teresa

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_272

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“…So far -few scientific studies cover the links between the concept of age-friendly city and the idea of smart city, which prompted the Author to take up this topic. A perspective of looking at the role of the elderly in society in age-friendly city was also adopted in the concept of "smart ageing", defined as "using technology, innovation and design in both public and private sectors to produce products, services, solutions and systems to improve the quality of life", among others in the field of assisted living [11]. The experience collected by the network of Age-Friendly Cities in eight activity areas of key importance for this program allows us to define effective strategies [33,35].…”

Section: Age-friendly City and Smart City: Its Concept For Accessibi-itymentioning

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The Concept of Smart City in Terms of Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Urban Space for the Elderly; Literature Review

Szewczenko

2020

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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The paper presents the results of literature review concerned with the possibilities of using ICT for creating a new dimension of accessibility and quality of space. The aim of conducted research was to indicate the main strategies and use ICT as a contribution to the quality of life of the elderly. The article refers to the idea of age-friendly city in connection with the Smart City. As the method a systematic literature review was used, based on the available scientific databases. The results shows that the largest part of project activities in this area involves the use of Internet of Things infrastructure in the field of healthcare and for care services as well as for the maintenance of elderly's social contacts. Therefore, the concept of Smart City offers the elderly residents many options to compensate for psychophysical dysfunctions and related with them limitations in social life, however, it demands parallel education to develop digital competences for older people.

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Section: Age-friendly City and Smart City: Its Concept For Accessibi-itymentioning

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The Concept of Smart City in Terms of Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Urban Space for the Elderly; Literature Review

Szewczenko

2020

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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“…But this is not enough; when users are involved in LSPs, a focus primarily on technological issues becomes too narrow. In pilots engaging end-users, issues related to social and ethical aspects becomes more apparent which for example, can be seen in the analysis of one deployment site of a smart living LSP by Fico et al [20]. In their study of engaged end-users in the LSP, aspects related to privacy, security, safety (falls and monitoring health), social engagement (keeping contact with social networks), transport, mobility and leisure (serious games) became important aspects to address in the LSP [20].…”

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“…In pilots engaging end-users, issues related to social and ethical aspects becomes more apparent which for example, can be seen in the analysis of one deployment site of a smart living LSP by Fico et al [20]. In their study of engaged end-users in the LSP, aspects related to privacy, security, safety (falls and monitoring health), social engagement (keeping contact with social networks), transport, mobility and leisure (serious games) became important aspects to address in the LSP [20]. From a pilot management perspective, all these challenges including end-user engagement, IoT governance, security, privacy and trust are important policy issues that need to be handled in LSPs [17], hence a broad range of expertise and competences to successfully implement the LSP are required [21].…”

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Adoption Barriers of IoT in Large Scale Pilots

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The pervasive connectivity of devices enabled by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is leading the way in various innovative services and applications. This increasing connectivity comes with its own complexity. Thus, large scale pilots (LSPs) are designed to develop, test and use IoT innovations in various domains in conditions very similar to their operational scalable setting. One of the key challenges facing the diffusion of such innovations within the course of an LSP is understanding the conditions in which their respective users decide to adopt them (or not). Accordingly, in this study we explore IoT adoption barriers in four LSPs in Europe from the following domains: smart cities, autonomous driving, wearables and smart agriculture and farming. By applying Roger's Diffusion of Innovation as a theoretical lens and using empirical data from workshops and expert interviews, we identify a set of common and domain specific adoption barriers. Our results reveal that trust, cost, perceived value, privacy and security are common concerns, yet shape differently across domains. In order to overcome various barriers, the relative advantage or value of using the innovation needs to be clearly communicated and related to the users' situational use; while this value can be economic in some domains, it is more hedonic in others. LSPs were particularly challenged in applying established strategies to overcome some of those barriers (e.g., co-creation with end-users) due to the immaturity of the technology as well as the scale of pilots. Accordingly, we reflect on the theoretical choice in the discussion as well as the implications of this study on research and practice. We conclude with providing practical recommendations to LSPs and avenues for future research.

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“…The European Commission aims at demonstrating that IoT is a key enabler for the successful deployment of Smart Living solutions that positively affect Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) [20]. Some of the IoT main characteristics such as Ubiquitous Connectivity, Pervasive Computing, and Ambient Intelligence are all highly related to AHA environments.…”

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“…It has been used with the objectives of identifying the basic information required from users and stakeholders in order to gather their needs and preferences [37,38] and address them when designing or implementing an intervention. In our work, the Logical Framework was adopted to extract information from a user perspective [20] and with the aim of determining the following elements (as depicted in Figure 1):…”

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Definition of Technological Solutions Based on the Internet of Things and Smart Cities Paradigms for Active and Healthy Ageing through Cocreation

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Fico

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Existing initiatives to improve physical, mental, and social condition of senior citizens, which in Europe fall under the name of Active and Healthy Ageing, are including technological paradigms as main driver for innovation uptake. Among these paradigms, Smart Cities and the Internet of Things are of utmost importance. However, these initiatives may benefit from unified visions, efforts, and frameworks when it comes to defining technological solutions that take the most of both paradigms. We have defined an iterative approach, which combines user centred design techniques, technological development approaches, and a multifaceted adaptation process, to define a solution for Active and Healthy Ageing that makes use of the two paradigms. The solution is being defined in the context of two research and innovation projects, City4Age and ACTIVAGE, during which a solution is going to be defined and evaluated in the city of Madrid. Results show how Smart Cities and Internet of Things contribute to the solution, from a user (user needs and use cases) and a service delivery (technologies, architecture, and suppliers) perspective. In conclusion, we find the cocreation framework extremely useful for the Active and Health Ageing domain, and the proposed implementation of it is functioning, although there is room for improvement.

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Co-creating with consumers and stakeholders to understand the benefit of Internet of Things in Smart Living Environments for Ageing Well: the approach adopted in the Madrid Deployment Site of the ACTIVAGE Large Scale Pilot

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

The Concept of Smart City in Terms of Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Urban Space for the Elderly; Literature Review

The Concept of Smart City in Terms of Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Urban Space for the Elderly; Literature Review

Adoption Barriers of IoT in Large Scale Pilots

Definition of Technological Solutions Based on the Internet of Things and Smart Cities Paradigms for Active and Healthy Ageing through Cocreation

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