The Aware Home: A living laboratory for technologies for successful aging
Gregory D. Abowd, Aaron Bobick, Irfan A. Essa, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Wendy A. Rogers · 2002
We describe our ongoing research in the area of de-veloping and testing technologies for successful ag-ing. Sensing and perception technologies can enable a home environment to be aware of the whereabouts and activities of its occupants. Motivated by the de-sire to use such an awareness to help maintain inde-pendence and quality of life for an aging population, we describe the technological, design and engineering research challenges inherent in this problem domain. Our work is situated in the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute’s Residential Laboratory, a unique living lab-oratory for this exploration of ubiquitous computing in a domestic setting.