Intelligent environments for all: a path towards technology-enhanced human well-being (original) (raw)
2021, Universal Access in the Information Society
Emerging intelligent environments are considered to offer significant opportunities to positively impact human life, both at an individual and at a societal level, and in particular to provide useful means to support people in their daily life activities and thus improve well-being for everybody, especially for older people and for people with limitations of activities. In this context, accessibility and usability, although necessary, are not sufficient to ensure that applications and services are appropriately designed to satisfy human needs and overcome potential functional limitations in the execution of everyday activities fundamental for well-being. This position paper puts forward the claim that, in order to achieve the above objective, it is necessary that: (i) the design of Assistive Intelligent Environments is centered around the well-being of people, roughly intended as the possibility of executing the (everyday) human activities necessary for living (independently), thus ...
Related papers
Universal Design in Ambient Intelligent Environments
2017
Ambient Assisted Living is normally how reference is made to Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments when used to support old people in living independently and remain active, thus contributing to their physical and cognitive well-being (eInclusion). The main purpose of the paper is to show that the house is a particularly difficult environment, due to the variety of activities to be carried out in it and of abilities and preferences of people. Therefore, it is necessary to set up integrated infrastructures able to “reason” about the present status, physical and emotional, of the inhabitants and to offer them suitable support services.
Ambient Information Systems to Support the Elderly in Carrying Out Their Activities of Daily Living
2009
As they age, older adult’s present losses in their functional capabilities which cause them can’t continue performing their activities of daily living (ADL) independently at home. We propose Ambient Information Systems (AIS) as appropriate pervasive devices to promote their independent living. Therefore our aim is to determine the utility and usability of AIS to support the independent life of older adults by helping them to perform their activities. In this paper we present preliminary results of a case study that we carried out for understanding the problems and needs that older adults face in doing some of their activities of daily living. In particular, we present results regarding the elderly problems to adhere to their medication prescription. Based on these results we propose AIS to support older adults to medicate. Finally, we present the design attributes incorporated into this AIS, which were identified from the design taxonomies of AIS reported in the literature.
Loading Preview
Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.