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Assistive technology to monitor activity, health and wellbeing in old age: The wrist wearable unit in the USEFIL project

Issue title: Over a Decade of Developing the Assistive Technology Field in the UK

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Guest editors: Donna Cowan, Simon Judge and Peter Cudd

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ahanathapillai, V.a | Amor, J.D.b; * | James, C.J.b

Affiliations: [a] Institute of Digital Healthcare, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK | [b] Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: James Amor, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. E-mail:J.D.Amor@warwick.ac.uk

Keywords: Assistive technology, unobtrusive monitoring, wrist wearable device, activity monitoring, old age

DOI: 10.3233/TAD-150425

Journal: Technology and Disability, vol. 27, no. 1-2, pp. 17-29, 2015

Published: 2015
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Abstract

This paper presents the assistive technology used to perform activity monitoring in the USEFIL (Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living) project, particularly the wrist wearable unit. USEFIL includes a number of activity monitoring devices alongside some condition specific medical devices, a dedicated electronic health record database and communication backend. The system is designed as an assistive technology to provide long-term monitoring for older people in their own home and communicate the data that is gathered into a decision support system that can be used by the older person's carers to improve their care and allow them to remain independent in their own home. The wrist wearable device developed for the USEFIL project, the various health indicators extracted from its inbuilt sensors and how these are used to understand the health and wellbeing of the older person are discussed in this paper.

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