Ambient Assisted Living and Health-Related Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review
Journal Title: Informatics - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
The active ageing paradigm aims to contribute to the expectation of a long, autonomous, independent and healthy life. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) promotes the development of technological solutions that might have a key role in not only the optimization of support services for older adults but also in the mitigation of their disabilities. This article presents a systematic literature review of how the impact of AAL technologies, products and services is being assessed in terms of its health-related outcomes. The main objective of this article is to contribute to the understanding of how state-of-the-art AAL solutions might influence the health conditions of older adults. The method used to conduct this systematic literature review followed the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The results show that the reviewed articles report not only the use of technological assessment instruments but also instruments to measure health-related outcomes such as quality of life.
Authors and Affiliations
Alexandra Queirós, Ana Dias, Anabela G. Silva and Nelson Pacheco Rocha
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP44098
- DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics4030019
- Views 262
- Downloads 0
TOPCAT: Desktop Exploration of Tabular Data for Astronomy and Beyond
TOPCAT, the Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables, is an interactive desktop application for retrieval, analysis and manipulation of tabular data, offering a powerful and flexible range of interactive visualizat...
LabelFlow Framework for Annotating Workflow Provenance
Scientists routinely analyse and share data for others to use. Successful data (re)use relies on having metadata describing the context of analysis of data. In many disciplines the creation of contextual metadata is re...
Design, Use and Evaluation of E-Learning Platforms: Experiences and Perspectives of a Practitioner from the Developing World Studying in the Developed World
Electronic learning platforms are evolving and their evaluation is becoming more complex and challenging with time. Yet, the evaluation of electronic learning services is intrinsically linked to improving the performan...
Detecting Transitions in Manual Tasks from Wearables: An Unsupervised Labeling Approach†
Authoring protocols for manual tasks such as following recipes, manufacturing processes or laboratory experiments requires significant effort. This paper presents a system that estimates individual procedure transition...
Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables
Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation among users of these devices. F...