Authors:
Nuno Rocha
1
;
Raquel Sousa
2
and
Gil Gonçalves
3
Affiliations:
1
Institute of Engineering of Porto and Increase Time SA, Portugal
;
2
Increase Time SA, Portugal
;
3
Increase Time SA and University of Porto, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Active Ageing, Ambient Assisted Living, RWD, Elders.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Ageing of the European population raises issues both socially and economically, creating major challenges
for the traditional care and healthcare paradigm. Recent technological developments generate a favorable
environment for a paradigm shift in the way care and healthcare is provided, by promoting the inclusion of
the elders in the digital society. This paper presents an approach to promote elders inclusion, based on a RWD
platform, capable of being used in multiple devices (including SmartTVs), and in wireless sensor networks.
Studies involving end users have shown how well-adjusted interfaces ease the process of inclusion of IT in
elders’ life. This work has been developed within the frame of the European project HELASCoL.