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Smartphone Devices in Smart Environments: Ambient Assisted Living Approach for Elderly People

Authors:
Roua Jabla
Maha Khemaja
Félix Buendίa
Sami Faiz

Keywords: context-awareness; smart environment for elders; AAL; activity recongnition; ontology

Abstract:
One of the motivations for smart environment and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) research works is the significant increase in the elderly population. In that sense, it is important to address the problems associated with aging and to provide solutions to support the elderly in their daily life. This paper aims to present an AAL approach able to identify ongoing elderly activities and their context through embedded smartphone sensors in a mobile smart environment. Based on the learned context of elderly people, the proposed approach addresses the elderly’s needs and triggers the most appropriate service based on ontological reasoning so that it could interact with the elderly and, more importantly, seamlessly ensure their assistance. Finally, we validate the proposal through a questionnaire exploring elderly’s views about service satisfaction. We found that our proposed approach has the potential to assist the elderly in their daily life, with the majority of elderly people being mostly satisfied with the provided services.

Pages: 235 to 241

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: March 22, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-761-0

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020