By Nuno M. Garcia, Joel Jose P.C. Rodrigues
Addresses an rising Shift in constructing Countries
The authors and members of Ambient Assisted residing have well-known that the demographic profile is altering in lots of constructing nations and feature factored in an inversion of the demographic pyramid. The know-how of ambient assisted dwelling (AAL), helps the aged and disabled of their day-by-day workouts to permit for secure and self sustaining dwelling for so long as attainable. devoted to ambient intelligence―electronic environments which are delicate and aware of the presence of people―Ambient Assisted residing highlights the applied sciences that heart at the wishes of those specific curiosity teams, comparable to the aged or individuals with disabilities.
Beneficial to scholars, practitioners, and clients of ambient assisted dwelling (AAL), this article compiles scattered info at the topic, outlines crucial and important paintings in comparable literature, and covers the newest and software program for ergonomic layout referring to AAL. From inception to implementation, the textual content assesses what has been produced and researched thus far and appears for tendencies and clues for the long run. It stories literature on AAL released on the grounds that 2007 and describes the most beneficial properties and components of goods or platforms that interlink and increase new or latest applied sciences and structures.
This textual content:
- Provides broad insurance of the purposes, software program, and data administration for AAL
- Contains an outline of the innovations with regards to AAL
- Includes a entire overview of the cutting-edge on pervasive and cellular wellbeing and fitness (m-health) applications
- Describes a collection of initiatives and paintings with clinical relevance in AAL
- Introduces a framework concerned about the tracking and information of aged people residing alone
- Discusses a potential research on technological structures for individuals with cognitive disabilities
Ambient Assisted Living
highlights applied sciences that adapt to the person instead of the person adapting to the know-how. this article proposes applied sciences which may allow assisted people to stay independently for longer and decrease the necessity for long term care.
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2010; Chuan-Jun and Bo-Jung 2010; Corchado et al. 2008; Costa et al. 2007, 2009b,c; Grossi et al. 2009; Hui-Huang et al. 3 Articles Classified as Systems Where the Users Are Caregivers and Clients Detailed User Article Caregivers and clients Caregivers and elderly Caregivers and people with disabilities Health professionals and patients with diabetes Valera et al. 2009 Boulos et al. 2007; Dohr et al. 2010a Kleinberger et al. 4 Articles Classified as Systems Where the Users Are Clients Detailed User Layperson Patients Elderly Elderly and people with disabilities Elderly and adults People with disabilities Article Ahn 2010; Arroyo et al.
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Activity/Interaction Activity/interaction included technologies related to instance-based algorithms to infer user activities on the basis of data acquired from body-worn accelerometer sensors (Bicocchi et al. 2010) and systems to recognize a whole sequence of activities with different durations (Mirarmandehi and Rabiee 2010), instead of the usual recognition of single activities with equal durations, among others. Characterization and Classification of Existing AAL Systems 21 Human Behavior Ubiquitous computing research has extended traditional environments in the so-called intelligent environments.