Ambient Assisted Living (AAL): Sensors, Architectures and Applications 2019
This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ambient assisted living (AAL) pursues developing concepts, products, and services combining new technologies and the social environment, bringing improvements in people’s quality of life. The field has been gaining momentum over the last few years with the increasing demand of wellbeing and autonomy in all periods of life.
As research and technology support more complex systems, including sensors, actuators, networks, and intelligent data processing, possibilities of action grow, but also concerns on how to integrate these systems in people’ lives in seamless, unobtrusive, respectful and acceptable ways.
This Special Issue aims to highlight advances in the design, development, testing, and modeling of AAL systems, including the interleaving and mutual influences between its technological and social aspects.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Personal monitoring
- Assistance systems
- Independent living
- E-inclusion
- Healthcare IT
- Co-design
- Smart solution
- Ambient networks
- Event recognition
- Ambient assisted living
Dr. Rubén Fuentes-Fernández
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Design
- Architecture
- Interoperability
- Participatory development
- Responsible research and innovation
- Aging
- Functional diversity
- Chronic condition
- People’s autonomy
- Quality of life
- Learning
- Smart
- Usability
- Security
- Privacy
- Trust
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Published Papers
Sensors - ISSN 1424-8220