Abstract
Demographic and epidemiologic transitions have brought a new health care paradigm where life expectancy is increasing as well as the need for long-term care. To meet the resulting challenge, healthcare systems need to take full advantage of new opportunities offered by technical advancements in ICT. The RADIO project explores a novel approach to user acceptance and unobtrusiveness: an integrated smart home/assistant robot system where health monitoring equipment is an obvious and accepted part of the user’s daily life. By using the smart home/assistant robot as sensing equipment for health monitoring, we mask the functionality of the sensors rather than the sensors themselves. In this manner, sensors do not need to be discrete and cumbersome to install; they do however need to be perceived as a natural component of the smart home/assistant robot functionalities.
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The work described here was carried out in the context of the RADIO project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 643892. For more details, please visit the RADIO Web site http://www.radio-project.eu.
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Antonopoulos, C. et al. (2018). Robots in Assisted Living Environments as an Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable and Modular Solution for Independent Ageing: The RADIO Experience. In: Voros, N., Huebner, M., Keramidas, G., Goehringer, D., Antonopoulos, C., Diniz, P. (eds) Applied Reconfigurable Computing. Architectures, Tools, and Applications. ARC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78890-6_57
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