Adaptable Smart Environments for Elderly People [Environnement Intelligent Adaptable pour les Personnes Agées]

老年人适应性强的智能环境 [Environnement Intelligence Adaptable pour les Personnes Agées]

• 批准号: 358785-2012
• 负责人: Abdulrazak, Bessam
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Université de Sherbrooke
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=572776
• 关键词: Adaptable; Smart; Environments; Elderly; People

. *** Adaptable Smart Environments for Elderly People *** An imminent and sharp increase of elderly population is forecasted around the world, inducing human, social and economical impacts. Progressive degradation of vision, hearing, mobility and cognitive skills deprives elderly people from the possibility of independently performing Activities of Daily Living and engaging in social interaction, and often leads to reliance on services in special care facilities. Although several technological solutions could assist them, existing solutions do not fulfill the sporadic needs of the different elderly people and their continuously changing environments. My goal is to provide adapted assistive services in adaptive Smart Environments that can play a significant role in maintaining decent Quality of Life (QoL) for elderly people. I have applied Context-awareness to adapt and provision assistive services according to user profile and surrounding environments. The next agenda in my research is to provide continuity of assistive services that adapt to changing user conditions and environments while ensuring successful system execution. Therefore, the following challenges will be addressed in my program: how to design systems that enable continuity of service, how to model environment Context for such system, how to guarantee successful system execution, and how to adapt services according to aging process. My program will have significant impacts on the way healthcare is delivered and on socioeconomic development. The anticipated output of the program is the opening of new avenues for elderly assistance, promoting active aging and improving QoL of elderly people. My work, in close collaboration with caregivers and domain experts, will lead to concrete solutions that a) enable seniors to remain longer in their own communities, b) relieve caregivers and allow them to provide quality care, and 3) decrease the costs and pressures on the health system.

. * 适合老年人的智能环境 * 世界各地的老年人口预计将迅速增加，并对人类、社会和经济产生影响。视力、听力、行动能力和认知能力的逐渐退化，剥夺了老年人独立开展日常生活活动和参与社会交往的可能性，往往导致他们依赖特殊护理设施的服务。虽然有几种技术解决方案可以帮助他们，但现有的解决方案不能满足不同老年人及其不断变化的环境的零星需求。我的目标是在自适应智能环境中提供适应性辅助服务，这些服务可以在维持老年人良好的生活质量（QoL）方面发挥重要作用。 我已经应用了上下文感知来根据用户配置文件和周围环境调整和提供辅助服务。我研究的下一个议程是提供适应不断变化的用户条件和环境的辅助服务的连续性，同时确保成功的系统执行。因此，以下挑战将在我的计划中解决：如何设计系统，使服务的连续性，如何建模环境上下文这样的系统，如何保证成功的系统执行，以及如何适应服务根据老化过程。 我的计划将对医疗保健的提供方式和社会经济发展产生重大影响。该方案的预期成果是为老年人援助开辟新的途径，促进积极老龄化和改善老年人的生活质量。我的工作，与照顾者和领域专家密切合作，将导致具体的解决方案，a）使老年人留在自己的社区更长的时间，B）减轻照顾者，使他们能够提供高质量的护理，3）减少医疗系统的成本和压力。