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Technology has deeply embedded itself in our daily lives, making it easier to carry out tasks. However, the use of technology can be complicated for some like elderly people, cognitively and visually impaired individuals, illiterate, or people with ...

We suggest a theoretical framework for the design and development of a “needy" socially assistive robot (SAR) for the elderly. Our hypothesis is that a needy SAR will be more readily accepted by those that require them and would result in overall ...

Despite longstanding interests to understand user involvement in participatory, community-based research, we are still learning how including different users can influence the design process. In this paper, we share what we learned examining older ...

Speech and language loss is the most common disease for stroke survivors. The process of relearning communication skills is difficult and a time taking process. Technology-enhanced systems (TES) can be useful in speech and language relearning, however, ...

The "Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living" EU funded project is proposing an integrated system USEFIL system which intends to cope with ageing problem providing advanced, affordable and unobtrusive monitoring and web communication ...

INTRODUCTION Recent advances in the field of digital healthcare have seen the promise of e-health offering consumers a seamless and streamlined 'journey of care' with preventative benefits which include reduced health inequalities, reduced hospital ...

As the number of aged people is rapidly growing, the need for health and living care of aged people living alone becomes imperative. The telecare systems are able to provide flexible services for older people suffering from chronic diseases, but are ...

The increase in life expectancy is producing a bottleneck at the entry in institutions. Therefore, telemedicine becomes a timely solution, which is largely explored to care after elderly people living independently at home. It requires identifying the ...

This paper tackles the problem of supporting independent living and well-being for people that live in their homes and have no critical chronic condition. The paper assumes the presence of a monitoring system equipped with a pervasive sensor network and ...

Smart care technology is any sensor based technology used to aid and support human independent living. Such technologies offer new potential and can give rise to new problems for making the technology accessible to users. In this work we focus on ...