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Smart technologies for assisting the life quality of persons in a mobile environment: a review

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Extant methods for quality-of-life enhancement cannot be applied to assist people in mobile environments. For overcoming this problem, this paper investigates how smart technologies can be applied to enhance the life quality of a person in a mobile environment. First, a number of smart technology applications were analyzed, from which the smart technologies suitable for improving a specific life quality were found out. To a person in a mobile environment, awareness, comfort, efficiency, immediacy, mobility, preparedness, and responsiveness were considered as more important types of the life quality. To improve these, the most effective smart technologies were concluded as smart mobile services, smart phone, smart glasses/spectacles/contact lens, and smart surveillance camera. The contribution of this study includes a systematic procedure for applying smart technologies to improving the life quality of a mobile person, and a novel method that involves applying the Kano quality model to quantify life quality from several innovative viewpoints. The results provided useful guides for making plans to improve the life quality of persons in a mobile environment.

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This study is sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, Feng Chia University, 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Toly Chen

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, 57, Sec. 2., Zhongshan Rd., Taiping Dist., Taichung City, Taiwan

    Min-Chi Chiu

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Chen, T., Chiu, MC. Smart technologies for assisting the life quality of persons in a mobile environment: a review. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 9, 319–327 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-016-0396-x

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