Promises and Challenges of Ambient Assisted Living Systems

Sun, Hong; Florio, Vincenzo De; Gui, Ning; Blondia, Chris

doi:10.1109/itng.2009.169

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“…From a user perspective, the elderly can gain various advantages from Internet use (Czaja et al, 2013). The Internet offers significant potential for remaining independent longer (Czaja & Lee, 2007; see, for instance, research on ambient assisted living (Sun et al, 2009) and electronic health records management (Cho & Mathiassen, 2007;Klein, 2007;Payton & Kiwanuka-Tondo, 2009;Czaja et al, 2013). Users can participate in social processes via social networks, improve their consumer behaviour in terms of raising utility through e-commerce or participate in political processes through e-government and e-democracy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, Internet and IT usage offers the elderly significant potential for remaining independent longer (Czaja & Lee, 2007). Some recent examples include research on ambient assisted living (Sun et al, 2009) and on electronic health (Cho & Mathiassen, 2007;Klein, 2007;Payton & Kiwanuka-Tondo, 2009). Despite these benefits, a conspicuous age-related digital divide remains (Carter & Bélanger, 2005;Czaja et al, 2006;van Dijk, 2006;Agerwal et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Internet adoption by the elderly: employing IS technology acceptance theories for understanding the age-related digital divide

Niehaves

Plattfaut

2014

European Journal of Information Systems

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Information technology (IT) allows members of the growing elderly population to remain independent longer. However, while technology becomes more and more pervasive, an age-related underutilisation of IT remains observable. For instance, elderly people (65 years of age and older) are significantly less likely to use the Internet than the average population (see, for instance, European Commission, 2011). This age-related digital divide prevents many elderly people from using IT to enhance their quality of life through tools, such as Internet-based service delivery. Despite the significance of this phenomenon, the information systems (IS) literature lacks a comprehensive consideration and explanation of technology acceptance in general and more specifically, Internet adoption by the elderly. This paper thus studies the intentions of the elderly with regard to Internet use and identifies important influencing factors. Four alternative models based on technology acceptance theory are tested in the context of comprehensive survey data. As a result, a model that explains as much as 84% of the variance in technology adoption among the elderly is developed. We discuss the contribution of our analyses to the research on Internet adoption (and IT adoption in general) by the elderly, on the digital divide, and on technology acceptance and identify potentially effective paths for future research and theoretical development.

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confidence: 99%

Internet adoption by the elderly: employing IS technology acceptance theories for understanding the age-related digital divide

Niehaves

Plattfaut

2014

European Journal of Information Systems

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“…They are used in Ambient Living [1][2][3][4] or Smart building [5][6][7][8][9] researching fields for solving data acquisition process, depending on its applications, it can be used ambient or user sensors and actuators for making decisions. The knowledge of the subject's position it is very useful in these kind of systems because depending on it the decisions to be made are different, this paper present an indoor position solution for doing so.…”

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confidence: 99%

Indoor Position System Based on BitCloud Stack for Ambient Living and Smart Buildings

Medina¹,

Gómez²,

Romera³

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Abstract.Nowadays there is a research on ambient living and smart building applications to make people life more confortable. This kind of applications, in general, requires the position where a person is in a building to act according it and to any physical parameters that are measured from the person, to determine, for instance, if the air condition has to be switched on or off, the room temperature has to be put up or down or the music has to be changed from classical to pop, or vice versa. This paper presents an indoor position solution based on BitCloud Stack, a full-featured, second generation embedded software stack from Atmel.

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“…changes in heart rate). However, notifications may cause users stress and frustration [1], [41] and these problems may be exacerbated in older adults, who are frequently wary of new technology [35]. The objective of this research is to explore the attitudes of older adults towards mobile applications and notifications, and to study two notification approaches to discover which is most suitable for elderly users.…”

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confidence: 99%

Are Notifications a Challenge for Older People?: A Study Comparing Two Types of Notifications

Rodríguez¹,

Fuentes²,

Herskovic³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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Abstract-Elderly users are usually not the target of design of mobile applications, and they may have cognitive and physical difficulties. Mobile notifications may help them remember to use an application, promoting adoption and allowing them to become content providers. We developed a mobile application, QuestionReport, that asks users one question per day, and implemented two types of notifications: one that is activated at the same time each day, and one that is activated while using the smartphone. We tested both notification types with 18 users over a period of 8 days, measuring the time it took to answer the question after receiving the notification and their perceptions about each notification style. We found that the ideal time for users to receive a notification depends on their employment status and that users with low digital skills have less confidence in their abilities to use a mobile application such as QuestionReport.

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Promises and Challenges of Ambient Assisted Living Systems

Abstract: The population of elderly people keeps increasing rapidly, which becomes a predominant aspect of our societies. As

Cited by 180 publications

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Internet adoption by the elderly: employing IS technology acceptance theories for understanding the age-related digital divide

Internet adoption by the elderly: employing IS technology acceptance theories for understanding the age-related digital divide

Indoor Position System Based on BitCloud Stack for Ambient Living and Smart Buildings

Are Notifications a Challenge for Older People?: A Study Comparing Two Types of Notifications

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