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Environment Design Sustaining Users: Lifelong Housing Design
No full textThe attention to Design environments and new technologies inside houses are some of the main themes of many European research projects, in particular in the Horizon 2020 context, like the JPI (Joint Programming Initiative – More Years, Better Lives) and the AAL (Ambient Assisted Living). The initial hypothesis of the research has been prepared referring to demographic data analyzed, to the social and generational context investigated and the way older people are used to live in their homes.
The research question is the following:
"Is it possible to live longer for the aging people, within their own homes?
If so, how? Thanks which methods, tools, media, supports, scenarios?
Il workshop Robot Interface Design a Genova
No full textUn laboratorio tra studenti e volontari Auser per rendere più amichevoli le tecnologie domestich
Lifelong Housing Design: User Feedback Evaluation of Smart Objects and Accessible Houses for Healthy Ageing
Full text linkAccording to the latest research by the European Community and ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) surveys, Europe has the highest average age for its population. According to those data, in the near future, it could be necessary to move from a welfare model based on the centralization of care systems, to a system based on the distribution of certain healthcare facilities [1]. This means that the ageing population is ever increasing, thanks to better lifestyles, innovative medical care and wider access to different services. This work seeks to observe and analyse key implications of architectural and interior design features and new, non-invasive, interactive technologies, related to user interaction design and usability of environments within the housing scenario. Those themes are particularly related to ageing people who live in autonomously or semi-autonomously within their own homes or assisted homes.
For example, according to the “community care” approach, people could live as long as possible in their familiar environment, by bringing health and social care services into people’s home, providing assistance for everyday needs and re-activating the potential of local communities. Two vital aspects of the life of an individual, in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle despite ever- changing conditions, are domestic autonomy and good sustained relationships within the neighbourhood. This leads to an interesting research issue: could houses and smart appliances have the potential to improve autonomy and people’s quality of life? Which kind of methods, tools and scenarios could enhance well-being and healthy conditions, while reducing time and costs?
Data, analysed in different scenarios, starting from a worldwide and then focusing on Europe and Italian context, provides a clear view of house’s architectural and technological features and user feedback, useful to define a future household scenario suitable to meet the needs of a growing population
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Visual Accessibility and Inclusion. An Exploratory Study to Understand Visual Accessibility in the Built Environment.
Full text linkCurrent research shows that visual accessibility assessment in the built environment typically considers objectively measurable parameters. However, considering subjective visual perception for architectural characteristics is extremely important. Visual perception can vary depending on environmental factors and personal factors and is particularly relevant for people with low to mild visual impairments. This explorative research studied the current state of the art of tools and systems that support the assessment of visual accessibility and investigated new ways of experiencing visual accessibility in the built environment. After identifying gaps in the current scenario, the Cambridge simulation glasses were selected as a tool to simulate visual impairments and therefore experience visual accessibility in the built environment. A pilot study was conducted by navigating a publicly accessible building and experiencing how clearly visible certain architectural characteristics were, while walking with and without wearing the glasses. The goal of this study was to understand their potential use in different settings and explore how to offer an empathic experience of visual accessibility with a low-cost tool for different stakeholders
Design of a Secure Habitat for an Enhanced Long Living: Case Study S.H.E.L.L Project
No full textThe present work has been developed from an accurate study on the Wearable Devices within the S.H.E.L.L. project (Secure Habitat for an Enhanced Long Living), led by the Department of Architecture in Genoa, which focuses on “Made in Italy” industrial innovation. The project seeks to create a new assistance system for mentally disabled people or people with reduced mobility (Stikic et al., PervasiveHealth 2008, Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008) [1] using S.H.E.L.L. Personal Kit: a Secure Habitat for an Enhanced Long Living Personal Kit, a series of environmental devices that should be stationary and easy to use and implement and a modular
system. The aim is to turn them into mass products. The S.H.E.L.L. Personal Kit is made up of an smart wearable device, a tablet docking station and a series of environmental elements for localization and to receive/transmit data. The principal goal of the project is enhancing safety and autonomy for its users through automatic alarms, integrated in a wireless sensor net. The system can detect specific habits of the people that are being monitored, thus allowing them to move freely in their surroundings. It guarantees constant assistance by interacting in the case of an emergency and alerting family members or caretakers of any anomaly in the observed data
Adaptive Environments for Enabling Senior Citizens: An Holistic Assessment Tool for Housing Design and IoT-based Technologies
Full text linkThe population of older adults will continuously increase over the coming decades. As they get older, people will require assistance and regular monitoring, with higher costs for welfare system and families. Two vital aspects of a healthy lifestyle, are domestic autonomy and maintenance of relationships within the neighborhood. This leads to an interesting research issue: “Could houses and appliances have the potential to improve autonomy and quality of life of citizens? Which methods and tools could enhance wellbeing and healthy conditions? The house has the potential to be a safe, adaptive environment, integrated with technologies for life support. This work seeks to investigate the key implications of architectural accessibility, interior Design features and interactive technologies, related to User Experience Design. The proposed Design approach called “Environment Design to Sustain Users” is based on a scenario composed of two empirical strategies. The reported research aims to support the creation of a new standard of houses in which people can live in a healthy way, enjoying the opportunities of ICT, which shall be “enabling” and integrated in an unobtrusive way so as to be accepted by the user
Il progetto della casa sensibile - Designing the Sense-Able Home
No full textDiversi studi dimostrano come l’ambiente, il contesto in cui si vive ed il contesto familiare, costituiscono un fattore decisivo per il benessere psico-fisico della persona anziana. Le azioni del Design, devono orientarsi alla ricerca e all’individuazione di quelle soluzioni che ottimizzino la risposta ai bisogni dell’anziano, con lo scopo di sostenerne l’autonomia e l’indipendenza attraverso supporti, ausili e stimoli relazionali, ambientali, tecnologici ed assistenziali. L’approccio progettuale per l’habitat residenziale proposto, tende a sviluppare un sistema di Home Sensing e Home Actuating, in coerenza e complementarietà con quanto proposto per la SenseAble City (Ratti, 2012). Punto nodale per la realizzazione di uno scenario attuabile nell’immediato è l’integrazione dei sistemi con l’ambiente e il progetto dell’interfaccia di utilizzo dei device di controllo utente. Attuando una serie di good-practices del Design è possibile favorire il diffondersi di una nuova cultura del progetto, che possa contribuire al miglioramento del sistema del welfare assistenziale sostenibile e che garantisca la riconoscibilità dei diritti della persona anziana, tra i quali il mantenimento di un ruolo attivo e la partecipazione alla vita della comunità in ogni fase della vita
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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