Addresses an Emerging Shift in Developing Countries
The authors and contributors of Ambient Assisted Living have recognized that the demographic profile is changing in many developing countries and have factored in an inversion of the demographic pyramid. The technology of ambient assisted living (AAL), supports the elderly and disabled in their daily routines to allow for safe and independent living for as long as possible. Dedicated to ambient intelligence—electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people—Ambient Assisted Living highlights the technologies that center on the needs of these special interest groups, such as the elderly or people with disabilities.
Beneficial to students, practitioners, and users of ambient assisted living (AAL), this text compiles scattered information on the subject, outlines the most important and significant work in related literature, and covers the latest hardware and software for ergonomic design pertaining to AAL. From inception to implementation, the text assesses what has been produced and researched so far and looks for trends and clues for the future. It reviews literature on AAL published since 2007 and describes the main features and areas of products or systems that interlink and improve new or existing technologies and systems.
This text:
- Provides extensive coverage of the applications, software, and information management for AAL
- Contains an overview of the concepts related to AAL
- Includes a comprehensive review of the state of the art on pervasive and mobile health (m-health) applications
- Describes a set of projects and work with scientific relevance in AAL
- Introduces a framework focused on the monitoring and assistance of elderly persons living alone
- Discusses a prospective study on technological systems for people with cognitive disabilities
Ambient Assisted Living highlights technologies that adapt to the user rather than the user adapting to the technology. This text proposes technologies that can enable assisted persons to live independently for longer and reduce the need for long-term care.
Ambient Assisted Living—From Technology to Intervention
Nuno M Garcia, Paula Sousa, and Virginie Felizardo
Section I Review, State of the Art, and AAL Concepts
Characterization and Classification of Existing Ambient Assisted Living Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
Alexandra Queirós, Anabela G Silva, Joaquim Alvarelhão, António Teixeira, and Nelson Pacheco Rocha
Pervasive and Mobile Health Care Applications
Bruno M C Silva, Joel J P C Rodrigues, and Ivo M C de M Lopes
A Review of Monitoring and Assisted Therapeutic Technology for AAL Applications
Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Virginie Felizardo, and Nuno M Garcia
Implementing Best Evidence-Based Practice into Ambient Assisted Living Solutions: From User Outcome Research to Best Social Practices
Gerard Nguyen, Bruno Colin, Dominique Lemoult, François Sigwald, Daniel Thiollier, and Alain Krivitzky
A Demonstration Case on the Derivation of Process-Level Logical Architectures for Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystems
Nuno Santos, Juliana Teixeira, António Pereira, Nuno Ferreira, Ana Lima, Ricardo Simoes, and Ricardo J Machado
Section II Communications in AAL
Enabling AAL Wireless Data Transmission in Home Automation Networks
Nils Langhammer and Rüdiger Kays
Mobility and Multihoming Data Transmission Protocols
João C Silva, Artur Arsenio, and Nuno M Garcia
Power-Aware Communication in Body Area Networks
Hassan Ghasemzadeh and Roozbeh Jafari
Wireless Systems Applied to e-Health: Radio-Planning, Energy Efficiency, and System Integration
Francisco Falcone, Antonio López-Martín, Carlos Fernández-Valdivielso, Luis Serrano, Santiago Led, and Miguel Martínez Espronceda
Section III AAL Applications to Specific Areas
Video Care Services: AAL Solution for Dementia Support—State of the Art of Research and Intervention
Jorge Nunes Monteiro, Liliana Dias, and Susana Espadaneira
Telemedicine Scenario for Elderly People with Comorbidity
César P Gálvez-Barrón, Maged N Kamel Boulos, Sandra Prescher, Carlos Abellán Cano, Emilio Suárez Ortega, Ada Font Tió, Jordi Morales Gras, Karol O’Donovan, Marta Díaz Boladeras, Friedrich Köhler, and Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero
A Framework for Monitoring and Assisting Seniors with Memory Disabilities
Paulo Novais, Davide Carneiro, Ângelo Costa, and Ricardo Costa
Ambient Assisted Living—From Technology to Intervention
Paulo Freitas, Paulo Menezes, and Jorge Dias
Innovative Solutions for Inclusion of Totally Blind People
Michał Choraś, Rafał Kozik, Salvatore D’Antonio, Giulio Iannello, Andreas Jedlitschka, Klaus Miesenberger, Luca Vollero, and Adam Wołoszczuk
Section IV Business Models and Study Cases
A Business Model for Ambient Assisted Living Solutions
Henrique O’Neill and José Duarte Realinho
Social Innovations and Emerging Business Models in the Field of Ambient Assisted Living: Reflection on a Pilot Project
Katrin Schneiders and Ralf Lindert
The Living Usability Lab Architecture: Support for the Development and Evaluation of New Ambient Assisted Living Services for the Elderly
António Teixeira, Nelson Pacheco Rocha, Carlos Pereira, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Miguel Sales Dias, Cláudio Teixeira, Miguel Oliveira e Silva, Alexandra Queirós, Flávio Ferreira, and André Oliveira
Promoting Independent Living and Recreation in Life through Ambient Assisted Living Technology
Ângelo Costa, Juliana Teixeira, Nuno Santos, Ricardo Vardasca, José Eduardo Fernandes, Ricardo J Machado, Paulo Novais, and Ricardo Simoes
Section V AAL Research Topics
From Data to Knowledge: Towards Clinical Machine Learning Automation
Nuno Pombo, Kouamana Bousson, and Pedro Araújo
Soft Computing Drug Administration in the Ambient Assisted Living Environment
Filipe Quinaz, Paulo Fazendeiro, Miguel Castelo-Branco, and Pedro Araújo
Semantic Framework for Context-Aware Monitoring of Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystems
Lyazid Sabri, Abdelghani Chibani, Yacine Amirat, Gian Piero Zarri, and Patrick Gatellier
Collaborative Ecosystem Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living
Luis M Camarinha-Matos, João Rosas, Ana Inês Oliveira, and Filipa Ferrada
Social Ambient Intelligence for Assisted Living: Social Context, Networking, and Privacy
Antonio Sapuppo and Boon-Chong Seet
WeCare: Cooperating with Older People in the Design and Evaluation of Online Social Networking Services
Marc Steen, Mari Ervasti, Marja Harjumaa, Sarah Bourke, Victor Hernandez, Marlou Min, and Sharon Prins
Ergonomics and Sustainable Engineering: Important Features to Develop Human Sensitivity–Based Projects
Oscar Alejandro Vásquez Bernal
Index
Biography
Nuno M. Garcia holds a PhD in computer science engineering from the University of Beira Interior (UBI, Covilhã, Portugal) (2008). He is assistant professor at UBI and invited associate professor at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal). He was founder and is coordinator of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab), a research group within the Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI. He was also co-founder and is coordinator of the BSAFE LAB – Law enforcement, Justice and Public Safety Research and Technology Transfer Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research laboratory in UBI. He is the coordinator of the Cisco Academy at UBI and head of EyeSeeLab in EyeSee Lda. (Lisbon, Portugal). He is also chair of the COST Action IC1303 AAPELE – Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments.
Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues is a professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He received the habilitation in computer science and engineering from the University of Haute Alsace, France; a PhD in informatics engineering; an MSc from the University of Beira Interior; and a five-year BSc (licentiate) in informatics engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interests include sensor networks, e-health, e-learning, vehicular delay-tolerant networks, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications, the editor-in-chief of the Recent Advances on Communications and Networking Technology, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Information Systems, and editorial board member of several journals.
"One of the most informative books, that includes almost all recent advances and technologies as well as aspects of AAL, in smart environments of today. The book, drives the readers’ minds for more scientific inspirations in the era of Peta, within AAL context."
—Dr. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis
"the book seeks to show AAL technologies from its inception to implementation. It can help to disseminate them. The book will be an important way to communicate important AAL concepts. This book is an important contribution in the field of AAL. The contents and structure are adequate for its publication."
—Miguel Lopez-Coronado, Department of Signal Theory and Communications
"The main strengths of the book are that it covers the latest development of AAL and the comprehensive review on AAL including the concept, application, software, system, services, and many others. The text is easy for the readers to follow. It is valuable material for students, developers and researchers that are interested in working on AAL to gain a good overview and insights, thereby to quickly identify the opportunities where they can make novel contributions."
—Qi Zhang, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
