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An Environmental and Wearable System Supporting Monitoring Services at Home for Elderly People

Authors:
Giuseppe Andreoni
Marco Bocciolone
Paolo Perego
Marco Tarabini
Lucia Pigini
Gabriele Bovi
Valerio Gower
Claudia Panzarino
Maurizio Ferrarin

Keywords: Personal Health systems; Reliability; Usability.

Abstract:
This paper presents the system validation of an integrated Personal Health System for supporting elderly remote monitoring and services. Objective of the trial as a whole is the assessment of reliability, effectiveness and usability of the SMARTA system. Outcomes from the validation tests were more than good for the system’s reliability and all subjects assessed that they consider the system easy to use and that they will positively consider its introduction in their houses.

Pages: 289 to 293

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-470-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016