Smart Homes and Assisted Living for Ageing Population: From Sensors to Services

Dear Colleagues,

The use of Information and Communication Technology to develop new applications, product, services, and systems addressing the needs of an ageing population, has led to the development of so-called Smart Homes (SH) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)-enabled environments. These concepts encompass a range of different domains, from technology, including sensors, communications, and data platforms, to human-system interaction, including applications and user interfaces, to service provision, including management of health conditions and improvement in overall wellbeing and quality of life. With the increasing prevalence of technology, Ambient Assisted Living solutions aim to offer support not only in the home environment, however, but also in the community, and in the workplace.

This Special Issue welcomes submissions on recent findings and comprehensive reviews in the research, design, development, and evaluation through experimental activities of Ambient Assisted Living solutions and Smart Homes, and aimed at improving the health and quality of life of an ageing population. To reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of the target domain, this Special Issue solicits participation from different research areas, ranging from sensors and sensor networks, smart environments, wearable and pervasive computing, to data analytics, applications and service design, health sciences and experimental validation. We invite the submission of original and unpublished work addressing, though not limited to, the following research topics:

• Sensors, sensor infrastructures, and sensing technologies for Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living
• Internet of Things for Ambient Assisted Living
• Mobile sensing and monitoring for Ambient Assisted Living
• Activity recognition for monitoring and wellbeing promotion
• Behavioral analysis and anomaly detection
• Homecare monitoring systems
• Healthy lifestyle promotion
• Intelligent monitoring and user assistance in everyday settings
• Security in AAL and SH systems
• Experimental validation of applications and services for Ambient Assisted Living
• Living Labs and shared datasets

Dr. Susanna Spinsante
Dr. Carlos Chiatti
Prof. Dr. Chris Nugent
Assoc. Prof. Ennio Gambi
Guest Editors

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