Passive monitoring to meet individual health and safety needs

Mack, David J.

doi:10.4017/gt.2010.09.02.095.00

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“…Particularly, the literature concerns the basic activities of daily living (ADL) as defined by Katz [41]. As discussed in an overview article by Logan et al [42], numerous systems have been proposed for gathering data on activities of daily living, e.g., systems based on accelerometers [43], [44], [30], [45], wrist worn RFID readers [46], vision systems [47], [48], [32], [49], localisation technology [50], and networks of relatively uncomplicated sensors [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], such as infrared motion-sensors.…”

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Telemonitoring for Independently Living Elderly: Inventory of Needs & Requirements

Bakkes

Morsch

Kröse

2011

Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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In this paper we investigate the precise focus required of a telemonitoring system for the domain of independently living elderly. Particularly, we investigate (1) the needs of telemonitoring for this particular domain, and (2) the requirements for such a telemonitoring system. For our investigation, we performed an extensive study of the literature, as well as performed interviews with 36 individuals active in the field. As a result, we established numerous needs to be considered, being foremost information need on safety, with regard to care response on emergencies (e.g., falling incidents, wandering), as well information need on dependence on care, with regard to inactivity, self-neglect and loneliness. Subsequently, we established numerous requirements to be addressed, being foremost the use of non-wearable sensors, unobtrusiveness, durability, reliability, privacy, and ubiquitousness. In our discussion of the requirements, we detailed specifically the topics of focus, functionality, and form of a telemonitoring system for this domain.

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