Modeling Users, Context and Devices for Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Castillejo, Eduardo; Almeida, Aitor; López-de-Ipiña, Diego; Chen, Liming

doi:10.3390/s140305354

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“…The developers have to take into consideration many aspects of data corruption resulted from the remote acquisition, the delay of collection and the obstacles of timing. The uncertainty of the used devices and the criticality of the wearable ones are influencing factors for the data reliability and certainty [18]. Therefore, choosing the appropriate collection technology is forced by the structure of the environment and the other concepts related to the context extraction.…”

Section:  Data Providersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Context-aware Reference Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living Information Systems

Amina¹,

Abtoy²,

Abderahim³

2019

IJITCS

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AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) existing architectures lack the sense of abstraction. The overall existing designs propose a set of elements combined with specific technologies. These visions of AAL systems narrows the possibilities and the choices ahead of the engineers and strict the range of using new technologies, which are likely to be easier and affordable. In this paper, we propose a context-aware RA (Reference Architecture) suitable for the design of distributed AAL systems. Our design is standardized and technology independent. Our aim is to provide a common background for developers and deployers to achieve a common understanding while designing the systems. The major gain is to reduce the efforts made while integrating several systems into one complete and stable environment. Ignoring all the specifications, the details and the objectives of the systems, we introduce the standard qualifications, practices and experiences that assimilate the core of every AAL oriented system. Our perception is global, unified and standard. In addition, it presents an infrastructure that would survive the evolution of technologies. It is adjustable and adaptable to the different possibilities of AAL applications.

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Section:  Data Providersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Context-aware Reference Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living Information Systems

Amina¹,

Abtoy²,

Abderahim³

2019

IJITCS

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“…"In clinical settings ICF is used for functional status assessment, goal setting, treatment planning and monitoring, as well as outcome measurement" (WHO -ICF, 2001). ICF represents a valuable starting point to identify patients' disabilities and functioning conditions (Castillejo et al, 2014a;2014b).…”

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confidence: 99%

Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

García-Betances¹,

Mf²,

Mta³

2019

Preprint

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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Design of computer-based non-pharmacological cognitive healthcare interventions for people afflicted by chronic neurodegenerative impairments must be soundly informed by and clearly centered on users' distinctive disabilities. In this article we present a use-oriented analysis of those cognitive interventions intended for healthcare of patients with Alzheimer's dementia and related disorders that use human-computer interaction based on virtual reality technology. The analysis identifies the most important strengths and weakness, and describes and assesses the main key opportunities and challenges inherent to the use of this type of cognitive healthcare interventions. The most critical specific usability concerns that considerably affect these interventions are described in order to be directly addressed during a user-centered design process. Significant evaluation issues that still trouble these interventions' general acceptance are also included. On the basis of this analysis, appropriate actions are recommended to help minimize accessibility and usability issues. Finally, concrete design guidelines, and a framework with its road map are proposed to direct the design process. The proposed framework's more outstanding features and functionalities are described in relation to user-centered design conceptualization, implementation and assessment. The use of a consistent usercentered design methodology, such as the one proposed here to tackle the main critical obstacles, could turn out to become the key that allows to achieve a substantial improvement of VR-based cognitive healthcare interventions effectiveness. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Keywords: Computerized cognitive healthcare, Virtual reality for healthcare, Non-pharmacological cognitive healthcare, Alzheimer's dementia.

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“…It is thus observed that, from product design to multimedia and user interfaces adaptation, the approaches described above, even though the collected personal data characteristics to improve the system and user's satisfaction and product or service usability differ a lot, share the same goal. For a more extended review, the reader is directed to [23].…”

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User Adaptive and Context-Aware Smart Home Using Pervasive and Semantic Technologies

Vlachostergiou

Stratogiannis

Siolas

et al. 2016

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Ubiquitous Computing is moving the interaction away from the human-computer paradigm and towards the creation of smart environments that users and things, from the IoT perspective, interact with. User modeling and adaptation is consistently present having the human user as a constant but pervasive interaction introduces the need for context incorporation towards context-aware smart environments. The current article discusses both aspects of the user modeling and adaptation as well as context awareness and incorporation into the smart home domain. Users are modeled as fuzzy personas and these models are semantically related. Context information is collected via sensors and corresponds to various aspects of the pervasive interaction such as temperature and humidity, but also smart city sensors and services. This context information enhances the smart home environment via the incorporation of user defined home rules. Semantic Web technologies support the knowledge representation of this ecosystem while the overall architecture has been experimentally verified using input from the SmartSantander smart city and applying it to the SandS smart home within FIRE and FIWARE frameworks.

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Modeling Users, Context and Devices for Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Cited by 22 publications

References 54 publications

A Context-aware Reference Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living Information Systems

A Context-aware Reference Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living Information Systems

Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

User Adaptive and Context-Aware Smart Home Using Pervasive and Semantic Technologies

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