Abstract
The population of the world is getting increasingly older, and with that new challenges appear. It is thus necessary to promote healthy aging, where people maintain their independence and autonomy for longer. The SmartWalk project’s aim is to create a physical activity monitoring system for smart cities for motivating the elderly to a more physical active lifestyle, that is monitored and adjusted by health care professionals for best results. This paper describes the various components that compose the project, focusing on the mobile application and how it works.
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Data gathering platform for fitness and wellness data.
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Allows an application to react intelligently to the user’s situation.
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A municipality in the centre of Portugal with around 50 thousand inhabitants.
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An archetype of a potential user.
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Research funded by CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-024293. Project Smart-Walk: Smart Cities for Active Seniors held by ESTGA/ESSUA/ISCA - University of Aveiro, by ESTG - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, by ESE - Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, by Águeda Municipality, and by Globaltronic S.A.
This work is financed by national funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., in the scope of the project UID/CEC/04524/2019.
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Bastos, D. et al. (2019). SmartWalk Mobile – A Context-Aware m-Health App for Promoting Physical Activity Among the Elderly. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 931. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_79
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