Recent Advances in Active Assisted Living: Challenges in Architectures, Applications and Technologies
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 762
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Internet of Things; SMART IoT Ecosystems; Internet of Unmanned Vehicles; Industry 4.0; next-generation networks and services and ambient assisted living
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Interests: wireless sensor networks; IoT-based sensor networks; smart and intelligent detection; sensor network reliability; sensor network security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The demographic shift towards an elderly population has presented new challenges to families and caregivers, as well as health services and governments, from both a health and social point of view.
Active assisted living (AAL) is a research area that focuses on information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to support and assist elders in living safer, more active, and healthier lives, while increasing their quality of life. Here “active” refers to more than keeping the elderly individual physically active. It means enabling the individual’s continuous connection, among others, in social, cultural, and economic spheres while decreasing loneliness and social isolation.
The research community, governments, and health services are now engaged in using emerging technologies and systems as long-term solutions to offer health and social care services in the future. However, the development of AAL solutions is still presented with various issues and challenges, from social to technical, preventing their full deployment.
This Special Issue aims to share recent advances and major trends towards the innovation of AAL systems. We invite researchers who are working on AAL to submit original and unpublished manuscripts addressing topics including (but not limited to) the following:
- Quality of life;
- Assistive technologies;
- Independent living;
- Active and assisted living;
- Ambient assisted living;
- Activities of daily living;
- Education and leisure;
- Health and safety;
- Secure and safe services;
- Human interaction;
- Social robots;
- Social recognition;
- Elderly-centric products, services, and applications;
- Future architectures and frameworks for AAL;
- Social solutions in AAL environments;
- Standards and protocols for AAL;
- Social engagement and participation;
- Social sensing;
- Crowdsensing;
- Smart governance;
- Smart mobility;
- Digitalization of health systems and social services;
- Public institutions and private sector informatization;
- E-government, e-governance and e-democracy;
- Smart homes environments and infrastructures;
- Protypes and experiments in real-world;
- Device-free human activity systems;
- Internet of Things (IoT) for AAL;
- Blockchain applied to AAL;
- Cloud and edge computing for AAL;
- Digital twins applied to AAL;
- Smart environments in the context of AAL;
- Big data analytics for AAL;
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence for AAL;
- Edge and cloud computing for AAL;
- Architectures and future designs of AAL models;
- Services and applications for AAL;
- Devices, sensors and communication networks for AAL;
- Standards and protocols for AAL;
- AAL sensors and actuators.
Prof. Dr. António Manuel De Jesus Pereira
Dr. Luís Frazão
Guest Editors
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