Workshop on intelligent user interfaces for ambient assisted living

Abstract

The vision of ambient assisted living (AAL) is to provide technologies for supporting these people in their daily lives, allowing them to stay longer within their own home aiming at living independent and self-determined. We believe that intelligent user interfaces (IUI) can play an important role here. Consequently, this workshop addresses the questions related to the role, application, advantages (and also disadvantages) of IUI in the context of AAL. It aims at discussing on challenges, solutions and approaches related to these issues especially for elderly and impaired users

Ubiquitous Computing at its best: Serious exercise games for older adults in ambient assisted living environments – a technology acceptance perspective

“…Ambient Assisted Living strives to enhance the life quality, independence, and dignity of elderly, disabled, or chronically ill people through innovative, ubiquitous, and unobtrusive technology at home [42,61,76,57,62,74]. Although such pervasive health care systems have large potential to provide patients with a new quality of (medical) home care [16,15], fundamental questions regarding the behavior, communication and technology acceptance are not satisfactorily answered [49] and have enormous research potential [36].…”

An assistive environment for improving human safety utilizing advanced sound and motion data classification

“…Although the concept of patient activity and status recognition with focus on distress events detection is relatively new, there exists significant related research work, which may be retrieved from the literature [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Information regarding the patient movement and activity is frequently acquired through visual tracking of the patient's position.…”

“…3). The latter contains a 2.4 GHz wireless data transceiver RF reference design with printed circuit antenna, which provides all the hardware required for a complete wireless node using the IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) [21] packet structure. It includes an RS232 port for interface with a personal computer, background debug module for in-circuit hardware debug, four switches and LEDs for control and monitoring, and a low-power, low-voltage MCU (MicroController Unit) with 60 KB of on-chip Flash which allows user flexibility in establishing wireless data networks.…”

Serious Games for Cognitive Training in Ambient Assisted Living Environments – A Technology Acceptance Perspective

“…He envisioned that computers will work unnoticeable and enhance the quality of work and life and that using them will be "as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods". Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) takes up the idea of ubiquitous and smart environments to support elderly, handicapped or chronically ill people: Smart information and communication technology integrated in personal home environments is designed to support an independent and self-determined life style [5][6][7]. AAL can support people in various ways: First, they can offer emergency assistance by preventing or detecting acute situations (e.g., strokes, heart attacks, when a persons falls, …).…”