Abstract
This paper presents HomeAssist: an assisted living platform aims to support aging in place. This platform was designed using a human-centered approach. It offers assistive services, addressing the main aspects of daily life: activities of daily living, home and user safety, and social participation. HomeAssist introduces key novel features: (1) it covers multiple aspects of daily life, addressing a variety of needs of older adults; (2) it provides customization mechanisms, adapting assistance to the user’s abilities while preventing autonomy losses; (3) it relies on context awareness, delivering timely assistance; and, (4) it revolves around a unified user interface to achieve usability.
All these features play a key role towards achieving high acceptance of HomeAssist and supporting autonomy effectively, as shown by our field study.
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Consel, C., Dupuy, L., Sauzéon, H. (2018). HomeAssist: An Assisted Living Platform for Aging in Place Based on an Interdisciplinary Approach. In: Duffy, V., Lightner, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 590. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60483-1_14
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