Ambient Assisted Living

Costa, Ricardo; Carneiro, Davide; Nováis, Paulo; Lima, Luís; Machado, José; Marques, Ana Paula; Neves, José

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85867-6_10

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“…UMCourt and VirtualECare are two research projects maintained by the Intelligent Systems Lab, at the University of Minho. The VirtualECare project (Costa et al ., ; Costa et al ., ) focuses on the Ambient Intelligence paradigm and has as main objective to develop an agent‐based environment able to monitor, interact and provide its customers with services to support daily living. Moreover, this project also focuses on the acquisition of data for supporting high‐level decision making.…”

Section: Bridging Ambient Intelligence and Online Dispute Resolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enriching conflict resolution environments with the provision of context information

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It is a common affair to settle disputes out of courts nowadays, through negotiation, mediation or any other mean. This has also been implemented over telecommunication means under the so-called Online Dispute Resolution methods. However, this new technology-supported approach is impersonal and cold, leaving aside important issues such as the disputants' body language, stress level or emotional response while being based on forms, e-mails or chat rooms. To overcome this shortcoming, in this paper, it is proposed the creation of intelligent environments for conflict resolution that can complement the existing tools with important knowledge about the context of interaction. This will allow decision-makers to take better framed decisions based not only on figures but also on important contextual information, similar to what happens when parties communicate in the physical presence of each other.

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confidence: 99%

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“…Technologies that are used for AHA, such as pervasive computing [9], ambient assisted living [10,11], robotics [12], or serious games [13], have been implemented mainly to provide services in the homes of senior citizens, but rarely they have been implemented in other environments, like transport systems, public spaces, and other environments in the city or rural environment of the user. It is precisely in these places where AHA services are most needed, as more than half of the world's population lives in cities, and this trend is increasing more in the emerging countries and will continue during the following decades [14].…”

Section: Solutions For Active and Healthymentioning

confidence: 99%

Definition of Technological Solutions Based on the Internet of Things and Smart Cities Paradigms for Active and Healthy Ageing through Cocreation

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Existing initiatives to improve physical, mental, and social condition of senior citizens, which in Europe fall under the name of Active and Healthy Ageing, are including technological paradigms as main driver for innovation uptake. Among these paradigms, Smart Cities and the Internet of Things are of utmost importance. However, these initiatives may benefit from unified visions, efforts, and frameworks when it comes to defining technological solutions that take the most of both paradigms. We have defined an iterative approach, which combines user centred design techniques, technological development approaches, and a multifaceted adaptation process, to define a solution for Active and Healthy Ageing that makes use of the two paradigms. The solution is being defined in the context of two research and innovation projects, City4Age and ACTIVAGE, during which a solution is going to be defined and evaluated in the city of Madrid. Results show how Smart Cities and Internet of Things contribute to the solution, from a user (user needs and use cases) and a service delivery (technologies, architecture, and suppliers) perspective. In conclusion, we find the cocreation framework extremely useful for the Active and Health Ageing domain, and the proposed implementation of it is functioning, although there is room for improvement.

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“…To overcome this limitation, the paradigm of "Universal Design" [20]-also known as "Design For All"-has started to stand out: it aims at taking into proper consideration the di erent features characterizing the real human users, focusing on proposing solutions able to adjust to the speci c needs of users. e main principles of this paradigm can be found also in the eld of AAL, a discipline addressing the issue of increasing the quality of life of people in all stages of the lifecycle and providing them with assistive systems for an independent life, according to their abilities [21,22]. us, AAL systems aim at nding e cient solutions to help elderly or impaired people to maintain an independent and autonomous living.…”

Section: E D4all Project: Applying Universal Design To Domesticmentioning

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Semantic and Virtual Reality-Enhanced Configuration of Domestic Environments: The Smart Home Simulator

Spoladore

Arlati

Sacco

2017

Mobile Information Systems

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is paper introduces the Smart Home Simulator, one of the main outcomes of the D4All project. is application takes into account the variety of issues involved in the development of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, such as the peculiarity of each endusers, appliances, and technologies with their deployment and data-sharing issues. e Smart Home Simulator-a mixed reality application able to support the con guration and customization of domestic environments in AAL systems-leverages on integration capabilities of Semantic Web technologies and the possibility to model relevant knowledge (about both the dwellers and the domestic environment) into formal models. It also exploits Virtual Reality technologies as an e cient means to simplify the con guration of customized AAL environments. e application and the underlying framework will be validated through two di erent use cases, each one foreseeing the customized con guration of a domestic environment for speci c segments of users.

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Ambient Assisted Living

Cited by 59 publications

References 4 publications

Enriching conflict resolution environments with the provision of context information

Enriching conflict resolution environments with the provision of context information

Definition of Technological Solutions Based on the Internet of Things and Smart Cities Paradigms for Active and Healthy Ageing through Cocreation

Semantic and Virtual Reality-Enhanced Configuration of Domestic Environments: The Smart Home Simulator

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