Description and future trends of ICT solutions offered towards independent living

Frantzidιs, Christos A.; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.

doi:10.1145/1579114.1579173

Cited by 8 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…But even that is itself a strong argument for an already observed and an anticipated future expansion of AC, since research in psychology may drive the emergence of such applications and lead to further examples of enabling technology solutions. A similar observation can be made with respect to the field of elderly care, where psychology research related to cognitive training of the elderly has recently led to an expansion of ambient-assisted (elderly) living research and technological applications [106,107]. It is believed that the increased rate of research studies that are related to "emotion and health" and combined with AC and advances in communication technologies, may potentially facilitate the development of innovative AC-originated medical applications.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

Affective Medicine

Luneski¹,

Konstantinidis²,

Bamidis³

2010

Methods Inf Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

2 SummaryBackground: Affective computing (AC) is concerned with emotional interactions performed with and through computers. It is defined as "computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions". AC enables investigation and understanding of the relation between human emotions and health as well as application of assistive and useful technologies in the medical domain. Objectives: 1) To review the general state of the art in AC and its applications in medicine, and 2) to establish synergies between the research communities of AC and medical informatics. Methods: Aspects related to the human affective state as a determinant of the human health are discussed, coupled with an illustration of significant AC research and related literature output. Moreover, affective communication channels are described and their range of application fields is explored through illustrative examples. Results: The presented conferences, European research projects and research publications illustrate the recent increase of interest in the AC area by the medical community. Tele-home healthcare, AmI, ubiquitous monitoring, e-learning and virtual communities with emotionally expressive characters for elderly or impaired people are few areas where the potential of AC has been realized and applications have emerged. Conclusions: A number of gaps can potentially be overcome through the synergy of AC and medical informatics. The application of AC technologies parallels the advancement of the existing state of the art and the introduction of new methods. The amount of work and projects reviewed in this paper witness an ambitious and optimistic synergetic future of the Affective Medicine field.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

Affective Medicine

Luneski¹,

Konstantinidis²,

Bamidis³

2010

Methods Inf Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Innovative digital services are designed and implemented in a variety of contexts, targeting new user groups and application areas. For example, digital services have been developed to promote independent living for elderly [1] and for medical support in homes for people with diabetes [2]. Innovative digital design is also implemented in numerous products.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Innovation and Social Dilemmas

Åkesson

Thomsen

2014

Creating Value for All Through IT

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Part 1: Creating ValueInternational audienceDigital innovation is rapidly reshaping society, affecting fundamental aspects of our everyday activities and lives. This development is accompanied with benefits as well as social dilemmas. In this paper we approach this class of challenges in IS digital innovation research. We investigate how social challenges are attended in research agendas, and reflect upon social challenges emerging from a digital service innovation project. Based on the empirical case, we present a scenario that illustrates how social challenges can unfold in digital service innovation. The case exemplifies three conflicts of interest that are used to discuss implications for the research agendas for digital innovation. We propose that explicit attention is paid to social and ethical challenges, taking a large scale and interdisciplinary approach on social and ethical challenges in digital ecosystems

show abstract

“…Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL) technologies target at alleviating the difficulties of everyday life for the elderly or people with disabilities in general [2]. Remote monitoring of the senior, notification in case of an emergency, early detection of upcoming or already existing problems and suggestions on actions to be taken in order to alleviate any visible disease symptoms comprise the most common features of such systems [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a hierarchically-structured decision support tool for improving seniors' independent living

Billis

Papageorgiou

Frantzidιs

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the current work, we present our position towards the modeling of a decision support system for health assessment and prevention of risky situations in the life of seniors. A two-layer architecture based on the Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) methodology is considered as the main tool to encode medical knowledge and reason about the health status of seniors. This is the initial step, since outputs of several discrete FCM models are then combined to form the input concepts for an upper level schema (the health status of the senior) of upper-level concepts and relationships, so as to infer about recommended individualized therapies and interventions that would help therapists to prevent risky situations and enhance the independence and quality of life of the seniors. A modeling sample of the depression assessment is presented at the first level of the proposed architecture, while am integration schema of the proposed approach provides a view of our future extended model.

show abstract

Description and future trends of ICT solutions offered towards independent living

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Affective Medicine

Affective Medicine

Digital Innovation and Social Dilemmas

Towards a hierarchically-structured decision support tool for improving seniors' independent living

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About