People Tracking in Ambient Assisted Living Environments Using Low-Cost Thermal Image Cameras

In this chapter the lessons learnt from the build-up and integration of the USEFIL are demonstrated. First an introduction to Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) platforms, the infrastructure for eHomes of any purpose eHome is presented, in the context of their emergence as a viable way for managing healthcare costs in an aging first world population. Then technical and sustainability issues that are present after several years of maturation are touched upon. The USEFIL project's aim at an AAL platform that utilizes low cost “off-the-shelf” technologies in order to develop immediately applicable services, to assist elderly people in maintaining an independent, healthy lifestyle and program of daily activities is then briefly discussed. Afterwards, the methodological framework as well as principal results of the preparation and running of the pre-piloting phase of that platform are presented. Closing, current trends are explored in conjunction with future directions as triggered by this project in the context of cognitive impaired elderly support.

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Resource Management for Multimodal and Multilingual Adaptation of User Interfaces in Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services for Quality of Life - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-39194-1_12 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 97-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carsten Stocklöw ◽

Andrej Grguric ◽

Tim Dutz ◽

Tjark Vandommele ◽

Arjan Kuijper

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Assisted Living ◽

Ambient Assisted Living ◽

Living Environments

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Rehabilitation Systems in Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Recent Advances in Ambient Intelligence and Context-Aware Computing - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-7284-0.ch004 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 60-78

Author(s):

A. M. Middleton ◽

R. P. Harte ◽

T. E. Ward

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Motion Capture ◽

Assisted Living ◽

Serious Games ◽

Ambient Assisted Living ◽

Robotic Rehabilitation ◽

Recent Advances ◽

The Future ◽

Living Environments

This chapter reviews Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the context of movement-based rehabilitation. The authors analyse the need for AAL solutions and how they can overcome many of the drawbacks associated with traditional rehabilitation. They discuss the benefits and challenges of rehabilitation within the AAL paradigm and the well-known benefits that the telerehabilitation and telemedicine models have already established. The authors review the top ambient technologies in use today, detailing their advantages and shortcomings. The review focuses primarily on areas such as motion capture, serious games, and robotic rehabilitation. The authors carry out a structured search of two well-known databases to find the most recent advances and present the most interesting lines of research and development. Finally, the authors discuss the review findings and draw conclusions on the future of personalised rehabilitation within an AAL paradigm.

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