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The Caregiver Perspective: An Assistive AAL Platform

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Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities (IWAAL 2014)

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The Ambient Assisted Living area has spawned several projects that aim to help the user on his/her daily activities. The AAL4ALL (ambient assisted living for all) project aims to develop a unified ecosystem using fully compatible devices and services. The UserAccess platform is part of the AAL4ALL and has as a goal to provide assistance to a type of actor that is commonly forgotten in the Ambient Assisted Living area, the caregiver. This paper presents the architecture, implementation, and interfaces, along with a brief analysis of caregiver’s needs and work related issues.

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  1. CCTC-Computer Science and Technology Center, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Angelo Costa & Paulo Novais

  2. School of Psychology, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Paula Magalhães & José Ferreira-Alves

  3. Institute for Polymers and Composites IPC/I3N, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Paula Magalhães & Ricardo Simoes

  4. Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Vieira do Minho, Portugal

    Tito Peixoto

  5. Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ricardo Simoes

  6. Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Campus do IPCA, 4750-810, Barcelos, Portugal

    Ricardo Simoes

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK

    Leandro Pecchia

  2. School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, The Gateway, LE1 9BH, Leicester, UK

    Liming Luke Chen

  3. Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Computer Science Research, Jordanstown Campus, Shore Road, BT37 0QB, Newtownabbey, UK

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  4. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad, Real, Spain

    José Bravo

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Costa, A., Magalhães, P., Ferreira-Alves, J., Peixoto, T., Simoes, R., Novais, P. (2014). The Caregiver Perspective: An Assistive AAL Platform. In: Pecchia, L., Chen, L.L., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities. IWAAL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_44

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