Challenges in Health Smart Homes

Bartolomeu, Paulo; Fonseca, José; Vasques, Francisco

doi:10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth2008.2745

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“…[1], Bartolomeu et al. [2] described Smart Home as a promising subject developed from home automation and home networking technologies [3,4] that incorporate a communications network in houses to connect electrical appliances and services for remote control, with an emphasis on assistive technologies for the elderly and disabled. Noury et al.…”

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“…The healthy smart home would enable people suffering from various diseases and handicaps to live an autonomous life in their own residences. By incorporating the concept of the Healthy Smart Home, the research of smart homes has become a part of the health domain emphasizing the notion of “ageing in place” [2]. Rather than move into hospitals or institutions, most of the elderly would desire to stay in their homes with the benefit of technologically mediated care or support [6,7].…”

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A Critical Review of User Studies on Healthy Smart Homes

Kim

Cho

et al. 2012

Indoor and Built Environment

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Considerable research has been conducted on smart services and technologies over the past decades, and the realization of smart environments has been one of the important research themes in housing studies. However, there is a lack of evaluation of the effects of those technologies on user experience from a cognitive perspective. This paper reviews the evaluation methods adopted in user studies of healthy smart homes. The review of user studies would enable the consolidation of knowledge to develop appropriate evaluation strategies for investigating user experience of smart services and technologies. Through an exhaustive search on contents pages of articles, different strategies for user studies were examined that span a range of experimental settings and analysis methods. These strategies can potentially work together in complementary ways to provide insights into user experience of healthy smart homes. The review highlighted research issues on user experience to be addressed for smart environments, giving valuable insights on cognitive paradigms to develop guide for smart services and technologies, which would ultimately encourage user satisfaction and foster sensibility.

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A Critical Review of User Studies on Healthy Smart Homes

Kim

Cho

et al. 2012

Indoor and Built Environment

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“…Various terms have been used to describe such technology, such as “smart homes in or for health care” [ 7 , 8 ], “health smart home” [ 9 , 10 ], and “ubiquitous health care” [ 11 , 12 ]. For consistent terminology, we adopted the term “smart home health care” and established the following operationalized definition [ 13 ], which embraces both technical and experiential perspectives:…”

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Determining the Intellectual Structure and Academic Trends of Smart Home Health Care Research: Coword and Topic Analyses

Kang¹,

Han²,

Kwon³

2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, smart homes are being investigated as effective solutions for home health care. The increasing academic attention on smart home health care has primarily been on the development and application of smart home technologies. However, comprehensive studies examining the general landscape of diverse research areas for smart home health care are still lacking. Objective This study aims to determine the intellectual structure of smart home health care in a time series by conducting a coword analysis and topic analysis. Specifically, it investigates (1) the intellectual basis of smart home health care through overall academic status, (2) the intellectual foci through influential keywords and their evolutions, and (3) intellectual trends through primary topics and their evolutions. Methods Analyses were conducted in 5 steps: (1) data retrieval from article databases (Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed) and the initial dataset preparation of 6080 abstracts from the year 2000 to the first half of 2019; (2) data preprocessing and refinement extraction of 25,563 words; (3) a descriptive analysis of the overall academic status and period division (ie, 4 stages of 3-year blocks); (4) coword analysis based on word co-occurrence networks for the intellectual foci; and (5) topic analysis for the intellectual trends based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling, word-topic networks, and researcher workshops. Results First, regarding the intellectual basis of smart home health care, recent academic interest and predominant journals and research domains were verified. Second, to determine the intellectual foci, primary keywords were identified and classified according to the degree of their centrality values. Third, 5 themes pertaining to the topic evolution emerged: (1) the diversification of smart home health care research topics; (2) the shift from technology-oriented research to technological convergence research; (3) the expansion of application areas and system functionality of smart home health care; (4) the increased focus on system usability, such as service design and experiences; and (5) the recent adaptation of the latest technologies in health care. Based on these findings, the pattern of technology diffusion in smart home health care research was determined as the adaptation of technologies, the proliferation of application areas, and an extension into system design and service experiences. Conclusions The research findings provide academic and practical value in 3 aspects. First, they promote a comprehensive understanding of the smart home health care domain by identifying its multifaceted intellectual structure in a time series. Second, they can help clinicians discern the development and dispersion level of their respective disciplines. Third, the pattern of technology diffusion in smart home health care could help scholars comprehend current and future research trends and identify research opportunities based on upcoming research waves of newly adapted technologies in smart home health care.

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“…The pressure for cost containment in health organizations and social care services is pushing the development of solutions to maintain elderly or impaired people living in their homes [6] while being assisted by intelligent systems.…”

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confidence: 99%