Visitrack: A Pervasive Service for Monitoring the Social Activity of Older Adults Living at Home
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2017Open access
Alonso Gaete, Francisco J. Gutiérrez, Sergio F. Ochoa, Pablo Guerrero, André Wyzykowski
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Visitrack is presented, a pervasive and unobtrusive service conceived to monitor the social activity of older adults living at home and can take several actions based on sensing data retrieved and processed by the system.
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Advances in medical science allow people to live longer and more independently than some decades ago. However, this does not directly help older adults improve their mental wellbeing. Several studies show that elderly people usually suffer from some level of social isolation that negatively impacts on their physical and mental conditions. As a way to address such a problem, this paper presents Visitrack, a pervasive and unobtrusive service conceived to monitor the social activity of older adults living at home. Based on sensing data retrieved and processed by the system, it can take several actions. For instance, informing family members and friends about long periods with no social activity at the older adult’s home. The proposed service has been evaluated through a controlled experimental study, obtaining highly accurate results.
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