Abstract
Displacement of elderly people from smart cities should not happen in the future. Instead, it is a necessity to create an assistive environment for the special needs of aging populations. The integration of tacit knowledge and physical knowledge of human experience provides a tremendous input to lead the development of database technology to ensure elderly citizen sustainability in smart cities. Hence, there is a need for user’s behavioural ergonomic knowledge to aid in prolonging the independence of smart cities’ elderlies. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the results of critical conservation of pragmatic pre-experiences for behavioural informatics of elderlies to prolong their independencies for living in smart cities. This paper documents the researchers’ study regarding key elements of the pragmatic experiences of a person in doing things. Then, it also highlights observation results when analysing information from pragmatic experiences of 15 artefact/tool users for establishing selected behavioural informatics for smart city elderlies. Later, the paper reports a case study in developing a systematic user’s behavioural informatics. Among the results from the selective literature, the review procedure includes key elements of pragmatic rapport in a user’s body movements during artefact usage of a person’s context in selected design typology. The user’s pragmatic culture is discussed covering the functional information that could explain the efficacious body movement and inherent information of accumulative cognitive experience that appreciates the body’s conditioning, dynamic bodily mechanics (automaticity and muscle memory), and its biobehavioural recovery. After the introduction of the background problem, this paper presents literature survey results including smart city's elderlies, pragmatic experiences, behavioural informatics, and prolonging independence of elderlies before describing the research methodology. Results in this paper are expected to lead towards the future development of a Memory System Design (MeSD) for a proposed Behavioural Informatics System (BIS) that could assist in prolonging the independence of elderlies who will continue living in smart cities. This paper contributes to the documentation of the user’s behavioural ergonomic knowledge.
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This study is part of the first author’s published PhD thesis at Universiti Malaya. It is sponsored scholarship by MOHE, Malaysia and Universiti Putra Malaysia. This paper acknowledges the contribution of Professor Emeritus Rahmah Bujang and Associate Professor Dr. Hazreena Hussain for their insights and expertise that greatly assisted the research.
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Ishak, S.M.M., Ibrahim, R. (2022). Elderly Behavioural Ergonomic Data for Smart Cities’ Design-User System. In: Abdalla, H., Rodrigues, H., Gahlot, V., Salah Uddin, M., Fukuda, T. (eds) Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86499-6_8
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