NFC based provisioning of instructional videos to assist with instrumental activities of daily living
Joseph Rafferty, Chris Nugent, Liming Chen, Jun Qi, Rachael Dutton, Anna Zirk, Lars Thomas Boye, Michael R. Kohn, Riitta Hellman · 2014
Existing assistive living and prompting based solutions have adopted a relatively complex approach to supporting individuals. These solutions have involved sensor based monitoring, activity recognition and assistance provisioning. Traditionally they have suffered from a number of issues rooted in scalability and performance levels associated with the activity recognition process. This paper introduces a simplistic approach to assistive living within a user's residence through the use of NFC tags and smart devices. The core concept of this approach is presented and is subsequently placed within the context of related work. A description of the architecture is provided and results following technical evaluation of the first system prototype are discussed.