Understanding the Interest Toward Smart Home Technology: The Role of Utilitaristic Perspective

Seniors’ expectations to adopt IoT technologies

“…Seniors are afraid that IoT devices cause unemployment and idleness in people's lives because they know the things would do more and people would think less. In contrast to previous work ( [13]), Brazilian seniors expressed fear of the Internet of Things. Therefore, it may be the case that this variation occurs in the Brazilian context due to cultural differences, education level, and lack of experience.…”

“…They mentioned that IoT can save time and money, prevent incidents, check the status and validity of things, organize activities and appointments, besides support seniors living alone. They also showed enthusiasm and positive interest in these technologies, which reaffirms the results of Stara et al [13] and Tsuchiya et al [14]. We observed that three participants were more optimistic than the others and said only positive aspects envisioning their next future with available IoT systems (see Figure 3).…”

“…Considering the senior public, a survey performed by Stara et al [13] investigated the factors that may influence the perceptions and expectations of 306 Italian older adults (average age = 74 years) regarding smart home technology. The results showed that about half of the respondents had a positive interest in technology.…”

AI-Based Early Change Detection in Smart Living Environments

“…These sensors need to be attached to a wireless wearable node, carried or worn by the user, needed to process raw data and to communicate detected events with a central base station. Although wearable devices have the advantage of being usable “on the move” and their detection performance is generally good (i.e., signal-to-noise ratio sufficiently high), their usage is nonetheless limited by battery life time (shortened by the intensive use of the wireless communication and on-board processing, both high energy-demanding tasks) [9], by the inconvenience of having to remember to wear a device, and by the discomfort of the device itself [10].…”

“…Ambient sensing devices, on the other hand, are not intrusive in terms of body obstruction, since they require the installation of sensors around the home environment. Such solutions disappear into the environment, and so are generally well-accepted by end-users [10]. However, the detection performance depends on the number and careful positioning of ambient sensors, whose installation may require modification or redesign of the entire environment.…”