User-Centered Design and Fast Prototyping of an Ambient Assisted Living System for Elderly People

Kieffer, Suzanne; Lawson, Jean-Yves Lionel; Macq, Benoı̂t

doi:10.1109/itng.2009.79

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“…The important multi-engineering aspects of the homecare domain identified by them are low-energy consumption devices, location and context aware devices, medical sensors, computer nodes, robotics, ad hoc communication networks, adaptive learning systems, virtual acoustics and audio engineering, interactive systems, ambient intelligence and usability. The user-centered and participatory development methodology with fast prototyping, involving interactive feedback from end-users produces better usable systems, as also argued by Kieffer et al [54]. In their Keep-in-Touch project, they have used the participatory development paradigm to achieve multimodality, accessibility, adaptability, and usability in AAL systems.…”

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Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

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Wagner

Pedersen

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Sensors

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field aiming at exploiting information and communication technologies in personal healthcare and telehealth systems for countering the effects of growing elderly population. AAL systems are developed for personalized, adaptive, and anticipatory requirements, necessitating high quality-of-service to achieve interoperability, usability, security, and accuracy. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the AAL field with a focus on healthcare frameworks, platforms, standards, and quality attributes. To achieve this, we conducted a literature survey of state-of-the-art AAL frameworks, systems and platforms to identify the essential aspects of AAL systems and investigate the critical issues from the design, technology, quality-of-service, and user experience perspectives. In addition, we conducted an email-based survey for collecting usage data and current status of contemporary AAL systems. We found that most AAL systems are confined to a limited set of features ignoring many of the essential AAL system aspects. Standards and technologies are used in a limited and isolated manner, while quality attributes are often addressed insufficiently. In conclusion, we found that more inter-organizational collaboration, user-centered studies, increased standardization efforts, and a focus on open systems is needed to achieve more interoperable and synergetic AAL solutions.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Memon

Wagner

Pedersen

et al. 2014

Sensors

299

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“…General monitoring within hospitals and research facilities includes the Keep-In-Touch (KIT) project [59][60][61], which collates health monitoring data. The Center for Future Health (CFH) [62] at the University of Rochester operates a smart home where daily tasks are monitored, communications occur via infrared, bio-sensors, and liberally placed cameras.…”

Section: General Health Monitoringmentioning

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“…Software applications assist in smart homes providing reminders, whereas robotic assistance involves hardware and software. This section consists of accurate ADL evaluation systems [59], including home care services and tracking systems (active) and social inclusion systems (passive). Active systems are user-instigated in an emergency and react with an alert (e.g., about-the-body alarm systems).…”

Section: General Health Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Daily levels of physical activity throughout our lifetime are important for long-term health goals, and the MoMo [111] study recognised that this ingredient was critical within the lives of teenagers, highlighting benefits found in bones, body mass index, reduced cardiac incidences, and improvements in well-being. DfA@eInclusion [59,112] encouraged the development of electronic inclusivity within older people, EU4ALL [113,114] provides an agile electronic teaching system, and amICA [68] offers personalised health monitoring.…”

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A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

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Europe's social agenda for the "active elderly" is based upon a series of programs that provide a flexible infrastructure for their lives so that they are motivated, engaged in lifelong learning, and contributing to society. Economically speaking, Europe must engage in active aging research in order to avoid unsustainable health costs, and ambient assisted living (AAL) systems provide a platform for the elderly to remain living independently. This paper reviews research conducted within the area of AAL, and offers a taxonomy within which such systems may be classified. This classification distinguishes itself from others in that it categorises AAL systems in a top-down fashion, with the most important categories placed immediately to the left. In this paper, each section is explored further, and AAL systems are the focus. Entire AAL systems still cannot be fully evaluated, but their constituent technical parts can be assessed. The activities of daily living (ADLs) component was given further priority due to its potential for system evaluation, based on its ability to recognise ADLs with reasonable accuracy.Information 2018, 9, 182 2 of 24 ensure that future system features include the minimum requirements necessary for AAL research and commercial usage, thus ensuring that the elderly and their families have systems capable of meeting their current and future ADL needs. Previous reviews have taken different approaches, yet all failed to provide a framework within which all AAL systems could be classified according to their primary function [5,6]. Some applied specific guidelines to predominantly single-use systems, compared platform performance, or personalised healthcare systems. The evolution of AAL technology [7] has taken us through three generations, from wearable devices that respond to an emergency, to automatic response home sensors, to a third generation combining less-intrusive monitoring with preventive functionalities. Another review approach of surveying ambient environment services [8] under event-, context-, or device-aware services was categorised in terms of a service-oriented, user-centered, and event-aware monitoring service. This review technique compared various ambient services of response time, success rate, low/high-level failures, power consumption, and service reliability/adaption, yet offered no classification. A comprehensive literature review [9] on platforms and systems [10] provided no taxonomy for researchers, and excluded ambient intelligence (AmI) research that is pivotal within robotics and wearable computing. A recent review paper [11] described AAL as the culmination of the following five technologies: sensors, context awareness, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, announcing the importance of device interoperability, yet offering no template for achieving this goal. AALIANCE [12] proffered a roadmap for AAL system standardisation and a possible future evolutionary structure for systems, yet this aspirational template lacks the necessary structure to accommodate curr...

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Ambient Assisted Living: Systematic Review

Queirós

Rocha

2018

Human–Computer Interaction Series

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User-Centered Design and Fast Prototyping of an Ambient Assisted Living System for Elderly People

Cited by 10 publications

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Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

Ambient Assisted Living Healthcare Frameworks, Platforms, Standards, and Quality Attributes

A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

Ambient Assisted Living: Systematic Review

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