Interactive Personalization of Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Marinc, Alexander; Stocklöw, Carsten; Braun, Andreas; Limberger, Carsten; Hofmann, Cristian; Kuijper, Arjan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_64

Cited by 9 publications

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“…The AAL systems require personalized configurations; which implies that the medical sensors, network, system and applications are procured, installed, and configured corresponding to the requirements and preferences of an individual or a group of users. Installation and configuration of devices and applications is complex and requires intervention from technical personnel to set the environment for users as also agreed by Marinc et al [ 76 ]. They propose an interactive and architectural configuration approach for comprehensive AAL environments targeting different types of users based on the levels of technical expertise as expert, normal and impaired users.…”

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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

confidence: 99%

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

Memon

Wagner

Pedersen

et al. 2014

Sensors

297

147

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“…The requirements for interfaces for impaired users can be formulated as follows [1]: 1) Limited access to details: complex and vital details of the system have to be hidden to avoid user overwhelming and trapping. 2) Self-learning: detected common patterns in the behavior of the user should be used to automatically create rules or shortcuts that speed and ease up the use of the system.…”

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“…mbient Assisted Living (AAL) environments comprise assisted technology devices, communication protocols and interfaces used to improve the quality of daily life for humans in different periods of their life [1]. Considering predictions of the demographic changes in society, AAL particularly focuses on elderly people though people with minor disabilities such as motor impairments can benefit, too.…”

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EMG Speller with Adaptive Stimulus Rate and Dictionary Support

Vasiljevas¹,

Turčinas²,

Damaševičius³

2014

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims to improve the quality of daily life for all humans in different periods of life. Neural-Computer Interface (NCI) can be used within AAL environments to provide alternative communication means for impaired persons bypassing the need for speech and other motor activities. By monitoring, analyzing and responding to muscular activity (EMG signals) of users, NCI systems are able to monitor, diagnose and respond to the cognitive, emotional and physical states of users in real time. In this paper we analyze and develop a speller application based on the EMG interface. We analyze requirements for developing interfaces for disabled users and interfaces of known speller applications, and describe the development of the EMG-based speller as a benchmark application. The developed speller has adaptive stimulus rate and allows word selection from dictionary. We evaluate performance and usability of the developed speller using a set of empirical (accuracy, information transfer speed, input speed), ergonomic (NASA-TLX scale) and conceptual (humanistic intelligence) attributes.

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