SHINESeniors: Personalized services for active ageing-in-place

Smart Cities and Healthcare: A Systematic Review

“…Only four articles reported on prototypes that were assessed with real users [20,38,43,45]. The remaining articles reported on concepts for further development, the elicitation of the requirements, theoretical models that were validated using simulation techniques, definition of architectures, definition and validation of architectures, and prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of the concepts (Figure 4).…”

“…Ten articles reported studies with the aim to promote the active ageing of older adults. These articles focused on different aspects that might be useful for older adults: community platforms [38][39][40][41][42] and applications to support daily activities [18,[43][44][45][46].…”

“…Concerning the support of the activities of older adults, the retrieved articles focused on various aspects: [43,44] sought to track the location of older adults while performing outside activities; [45] also sought to track the location of older adults while developing outside activities, together with the aim to create sensor-enabled homes and surrounding spaces to support ageing in place; [18] presented the use of activity recognition, fall detection, and health monitoring features for the implementation of intelligent ambient assisted living gardens (i.e., raising awareness that gardening is a leisure activity that should be supported through IT, as it is popular in older adults); and [46] highlighted the potential of technology in public urban spaces as well as unmet challenges (e.g., to determine how to design human computer interaction for walk-up-and-use in public spaces).…”

“…Data from smart city infrastructure [16,19,25,[29][30][31]48,49,52] Data provided by sensors inside vehicles [28,51] Data provided by video cameras [50,56] Data provided by gas sensors [37] Geo-tagged social media data [34][35][36]56] Data collected by online questionnaire [17,33] Data provided by lifestyle monitoring devices: Location [16,21,30,31,39,40,43,45,[48][49][50]55] Activity [18,20,24,31,41,42,48,49 [47] Finally, two articles reported on the use of social media [38,60] and one article, [22], reported on the development of an ambulance robot equipped with an AED. Using multiple sensors for navigation (vision and range sensors) this robot might be able to navigate from a point to a given destination without losing the correct path or hitting obstacles [22].…”

“…Copenhagen [58]); eight articles defined architectures [24,27,31,40,48,49,55,56], and some of them were validated (e.g., some of the components of the architecture were implemented for its validation [24] or a simulation of a use case was performed for the conceptual validation of the architecture [56]); 14 articles presented prototypes that were developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the concepts [16,17,21,22,28,30,33,34,37,47,51,54,57,60]; and four articles reported on prototypes that were assessed by real users [20,38,43,45].…”