Using Augmented Reality and Ontologies to Co-design Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corentin Haidon ◽  
Hubert Kenfack Ngankam ◽  
Sylvain Giroux ◽  
Hélène Pigot
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Assistive Technologies

The Next-Generation Technologies

Tap ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
New Age ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Connected Cars ◽  
Mobile Ecosystem

This chapter discusses emerging technologies, including wearable technologies, artificial intelligence, instant messaging and apps, smart homes and connected cars, smart wallets, and virtual reality/augmented reality. It concludes that there is a lot to explore with the technology and capabilities at hand today in the mobile world. At the same time, there is a lot in the future to be excited about as well. Within a few years, the mobile ecosystem and related technologies will transform our lives beyond recognition and usher in a new age. It will without doubt be recognized as one of the hallmark advancements that society has seen in the 21st century.

Watching over me: positive, negative and neutral perceptions of in-home monitoring held by independent-living older residents in an Australian pilot study

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1377-1398 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANA KAI BRADFORD ◽  
YASMIN VAN KASTEREN ◽  
QING ZHANG ◽  
MOHAN KARUNANITHI
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Home Monitoring ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
High Government

ABSTRACTWith an increase in the proportion of Australians aged over 65, and high government expenditure on residential care, there is a strong imperative to find smart, safe solutions to support older people to stay in their own homes. There is a growing interest in Australia for assistive technologies that provide home monitoring to promote health and wellbeing. This solution will only be viable if it meets with the expectations of older residents and their families. In the first smart homes pilot in Australia, we sought to ascertain barriers and facilitators of this technology. There was an overall positive response to the system, despite a slight tendency for residents to modify their behaviour due to perceived surveillance. Positive outcomes included increases in family communication, health autonomy and advances in technology uptake. Our findings suggest that a combination of considered placement of in-home technology, straightforward medical devices and a supportive human element will ensure that the technology meets the balance of service provision and preservation of dignity. Smart homes could mitigate the challenges associated with aged care while affording peace of mind for seniors and families.

Ageing, Chronic Disease, Technology, and Smart Homes

2011 ◽  
pp. 1539-1553
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Soar
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Coordinated Care ◽  
Innovative Technologies

This chapter explores ageing, chronic disease, technology and social change. Healthcare has been transformed through medical technology but there is much still to be done to enable seamless exchanges between all carers, which is expected to improve safety, quality and efficiency. There is massive potential for technology to transform the experience of ageing including assisting with the management of chronic disease, coordinated care and guided self-care for consumers. Innovative technologies are increasingly available to assist in maintaining health and independent living. This includes telecare, telehealth, assistive technologies, robots and smart homes. A challenge is in providing access to and support in the use of technologies where there are clear benefits to consumers, carers, providers and funders of healthcare. The chapter also reports on the Queensland Smart Home Initiative which is one of several organisations internationally that share a mission of assisting people to be supported through these technologies.

scholarly journals Joining semantic and augmented reality to design smart homes for assistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 205566832096412
Author(s):  
Corentin Haidon ◽  
Hélène Pigot ◽  
Sylvain Giroux
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Activity Performance ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Elder Caregivers ◽  
Future Work

Introduction Smart homes for assistance help compensate cognitive deficits, thus favoring aging in place. However, to be effective, the assistance must be adapted to the abilities, deficits, and habits of the person. Beside the elder, caregivers are the ones who know the person’s needs best. This article presents a Do-it-Yourself approach for helping caregivers designing a smart home for assistance. Methods A co-construction process between a caregiver and a virtual adviser was designed. The knowledge of the virtual adviser about smart homes, activities of daily living and assistance is organized in an ontology. The caregiver interacts with the virtual adviser in augmented reality to describe the home and the resident’s habits inside it. The process is illustrated with an ordinary activity: ‘Drink water’. Results The proposed process highlights two main steps: describing the environment and determining the resident’s habits and the assistance required to improve activity performance. Visual guidance and feedback are provided to ease the process. Conclusion Designing a co-construction process with a virtual adviser allows interactive knowledge sharing with the caregivers who are experts of the person’s needs. Future work should focus on evaluating the prototype presented and providing deeper advice such as highlighting incomplete or incorrect scenarios, or navigation aid.

Digitalisierung und Wohnen: das vernetzte Zuhause und individualisierte Technologien als Option für das Wohnen im Alter

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-471
Author(s):  
Rolf G. Heinze
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Scientific Fields

AbstractTerms like industry 4.0 or digital health and smart homes dominate mass media as well as many scientific fields in Germany. The digital transformation captures almost any field of life and work. The article focuses on housing and health, especially independent living in old age with the aid of assistive technologies. After overviewing the general ambivalences of digitalisation, the article discusses options and implementation projects as well as future chances of governance in this field.

scholarly journals Augmented Reality for People with Low Vision: Symbolic and Alphanumeric Representation of Information

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-156
Author(s):  
Florian Lang ◽  
Albrecht Schmidt ◽  
Tonja Machulla
Keyword(s):  
Visual Acuity ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Residual Vision ◽  
General Benefit

AbstractMany individuals with visual impairments have residual vision that often remains underused by assistive technologies. Head-mounted augmented reality (AR) devices can provide assistance, by recoding difficult-to-perceive information into a visual format that is more accessible. Here, we evaluate symbolic and alphanumeric information representations for their efficiency and usability in two prototypical AR applications: namely, recognizing facial expressions of conversational partners and reading the time. We find that while AR provides a general benefit, the complexity of the visual representations has to be matched to the user’s visual acuity.

Ageing, Chronic Disease, Technology, and Smart Homes

2011 ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Soar
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Coordinated Care ◽  
Innovative Technologies

This chapter explores ageing, chronic disease, technology and social change. Healthcare has been transformed through medical technology but there is much still to be done to enable seamless exchanges between all carers, which is expected to improve safety, quality and efficiency. There is massive potential for technology to transform the experience of ageing including assisting with the management of chronic disease, coordinated care and guided self-care for consumers. Innovative technologies are increasingly available to assist in maintaining health and independent living. This includes telecare, telehealth, assistive technologies, robots and smart homes. A challenge is in providing access to and support in the use of technologies where there are clear benefits to consumers, carers, providers and funders of healthcare. The chapter also reports on the Queensland Smart Home Initiative which is one of several organisations internationally that share a mission of assisting people to be supported through these technologies.

Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes

2011 ◽  
pp. 165-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Yamazaki
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Smart Environment ◽  
Smart Spaces ◽  
Home Networking ◽  
The World ◽  
Networking Technologies

This book chapter provides a review of the assistive technologies deployed in smart spaces with a variety of smart home or house examples. In the first place, home networking technologies and sensing technologies are surveyed as fundamental technologies to support smart environment. After reviewing representative smart home projects from across the world, concrete assistive services related with the fundamental technologies in smart environment are deployed not only for the elderly and handicapped but for people in ordinary families as well. Adaptability is one of the key essences in the assistive technologies in smart environment and, for this purpose, human-ware studies including man-machine interfaces, ergonomics and gerontology are needed to be linked with the hardware specific fundamental technologies.

Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes

2013 ◽  
pp. 663-678
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Yamazaki
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Smart Environment ◽  
Smart Spaces ◽  
Home Networking ◽  
The World ◽  
Networking Technologies

This book chapter provides a review of the assistive technologies deployed in smart spaces with a variety of smart home or house examples. In the first place, home networking technologies and sensing technologies are surveyed as fundamental technologies to support smart environment. After reviewing representative smart home projects from across the world, concrete assistive services related with the fundamental technologies in smart environment are deployed not only for the elderly and handicapped but for people in ordinary families as well. Adaptability is one of the key essences in the assistive technologies in smart environment and, for this purpose, human-ware studies including man-machine interfaces, ergonomics and gerontology are needed to be linked with the hardware specific fundamental technologies.

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