Ambient Assisted Living: A methodological approach

Valderrama, Miguel; Roa, Laura M.; Reina‐Tosina, Javier; Roman-Martinez, Isabel

doi:10.1109/iembs.2010.5626628

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“…Design and development methodologies play a key role in modelling and integration of AAL systems. An analysis by Valderrama et al identifies the major methodologies from the AAL systems design perspective [ 49 ]. According to them, service-oriented architectures (SOA), model-driven architecture (MDA), reference model of open distributed processing (RM-ODP), Harmony, rational unified process (RUP), real-time SOA (RT-SOA), and system design through multiple perspectives (S2MP) approaches and methodologies can be used at different levels for development and validation of AAL systems.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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

Memon

Wagner

Pedersen

et al. 2014

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

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

Memon

Wagner

Pedersen

et al. 2014

Sensors

297

147

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“…In our case we have used mainly user-fit [23]. There are others such as persona [24–26] which could be integrated in the section of user-needs and interaction of our methodology or exchange information structure. A similar project to MonAMi is UNIVERSAAL [27], which promotes an open platform for AAL service delivery and discusses users' involvement.…”

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A Multi-Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Service Description Tool

Falcó

Vaquerizo

Artigas

2014

Sensors

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Collaboration among different stakeholders is a key factor in the design of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments and services. Throughout several AAL projects we have found repeated difficulties in this collaboration and have learned lessons by the experience of solving real situations. This paper highlights identified critical items for collaboration among technicians, users, company and institutional stakeholders and proposes as a communication tool for a project steering committee a service description tool which includes information from the different fields in comprehensible format for the others. It was first generated in the MonAMI project to promote understanding among different workgroups, proven useful there, and further tested later in some other smaller AAL projects. The concept of scalable service description has proven useful for understanding of different disciplines and for participatory decision making throughout the projects to adapt to singularities and partial successes or faults of each action. This paper introduces such tool, relates with existing methodologies in cooperation in AAL and describes it with a example to offer to AAL community. Further work on this tool will significantly improve results in user-centered design of sustainable services in AAL.

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“…The AAL program aims to find efficient solutions to help elderly persons maintain self-sufficiency. The promises and challenges of AAL have been described in (Sun et al, 2009) and (Estudillo-Valderrama et al, 2010).…”

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Distributed ICT Architecture for Developing, Configuring and Monitoring Mobile Embedded Healthcare Systems

Hansen

Jensen

Isasa

2014

Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics

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This paper presents a system architecture to support remote access to mobile embedded healthcare systems during development and use. It describes the system architecture developed to allow remote debugging, configuration and monitoring of mobile healthcare systems as well as the prototypes that have been developed to explore the architecture. The architecture has been applied in a concrete wearable embedded healthcare system for treatment of leg venous insufficiency through compression therapy.

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Ambient Assisted Living: A methodological approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

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

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

A Multi-Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Service Description Tool

Distributed ICT Architecture for Developing, Configuring and Monitoring Mobile Embedded Healthcare Systems

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