This chapter presents a telehealth system called GiraffPlus supporting independent living of elderly in their own home. GiraffPlus system is a complex system which monitors activities and physiological parameters in the home using a network of sensors. The elaborated information is presented to the primary user, the elderly, and to secondary users like health care and home care providers and possibly to family members as a help to assess possible health and wellbeing dete- rioration, provide acute alarms, and support health procedure. The secondary users can also visit the elderly via the Giraff, a teleoperated robot that can communicate and move in the home under the control of the secondary user. The chapter fo- cusses in particular on the deployment of the system in six real homes in Sweden, Italy and Spain. The chapter outlines the technological various components used, the expectations of the users and the evaluation method.
GiraffPlus: a system for monitoring activities and physiological parameters and promoting social interaction for elderly
Tipo Pubblicazione:
Contributo in volume
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing, CH-6330 Cham (ZG), CHE
Source:
Human-Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds 261 and Applications 3, edited by ZdzisÅaw S. Hippe, Juliusz L. Kulikowski, Teresa Mroczek, Jerzy Wtorek, pp. 261–271. CH-6330 Cham (ZG): Springer International Publishing, 2014
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Coradeschi S.; Cesta A.; Cortellessa G.; Coraci L.; Galindo C.; Gonzales J.; Karlsson L.; Forsberg A.; Frennert S.; Furfari F.; Loufti A.; Orlandini A.; Palumbo F.; Pecora F.; Von Rum S.; Stimec A.; Ullberg J.; Ötslund B./titolo
Date:
2014
Resource Identifier:
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/287457
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08491-6_22
info:doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08491-6_22
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-08491-6_22
urn:isbn:978-3-319-08490-9
Language:
Eng