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Design and Ergonomics of Monitoring System for Elderly

2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-07725-3_49

1611-3349

Giuseppe Andreoni, Fiammetta Costa, Alberto Attanasio, Giuseppe Baroni, Sabrina Muschiato, Paola Nonini, Andrea Pagni, Roberto Biraghi, Roberto Pozzi, Maximiliano Romero, Paolo Perego,

Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention

This paper presents the study and the development of a tele-monitoring system with the aim to support elderly people living alone. The intent of our new system is to permanently connect the elderly with their relative and caregivers. The tele-monitoring system allows to continuously monitoring the subjects as they were in a hospital and, in case of anomalies in the health state, automatically share and alarm to caregivers and relatives. The continuous monitoring is done using two different sub-systems: wearable sensors for biomedical data collection and infrared video cameras for fall detection. The main goal of this study is to develop and test the system prototype not only from a functional point of view, but also from the user acceptability and usability point of view. For this reason this studies was based on a parallel development of acceptability and technical issues; this allows to create an ad-hoc tele-monitoring system for elderly,