Evaluating the Energy Requirements of Assistive Technologies for Older Adults.

Q3 Health Professions

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI:10.3233/SHTI230590

Xavier Del Toro García, Henry Llumiguano Solano, Cristina Bolaños Peño, Jesús Fernández-Bermejo Ruiz, Javier Dorado Chaparro, María José Santofimia Romero, Félix Jesús Villanueva Molina, Rosa Ana Sánchez Fábrega, Andrés Díaz Molina, Antonio Javier Tirado Bejarano, Jerónimo Cañuelo Noci

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Abstract

The successful adoption of assistive technologies for older adults requires considering and evaluating many different factors and dimensions such as effectiveness, usability, cost and equity of access, to name some of the most relevant. In line with this, the energy requirements to power such assistive technologies remains a hidden factor that might to some extent influence the success in their adoption and the user experience in a wider sense. Very often energy availability is taken for granted and its associated costs and operational requirements are mostly neglected. In this paper, the energy-related requirements of assistive technologies are analysed from a general perspective. This analysis is subsequently particularised for a use case within the SHAPES project, in the context of active and healthy ageing. This use case includes a wide variety of assistive technologies, namely: wearable devices, home sensors and a smart mirror, which provides connectivity and a set of software services. The energy requirements of all these technologies are evaluated and analysed to investigate their impact and relevance on the overall cost and user experience, following the proposed protocol.

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评估老年人辅助技术的能量需求。

为老年人成功采用辅助技术需要考虑和评估许多不同的因素和层面，如有效性、可用性、成本和获取的公平性等，这里仅列举一些最相关的因素。与此相一致的是，为这些辅助技术提供动力的能源需求仍然是一个隐藏的因素，可能在某种程度上影响它们的成功采用和更广泛意义上的用户体验。能源供应常常被认为是理所当然的，其相关成本和操作要求大多被忽视。本文从总体角度分析了辅助技术的能源相关需求。随后，在积极和健康老龄化的背景下，将此分析专门用于SHAPES项目中的一个用例。这个用例包括各种各样的辅助技术，即:可穿戴设备、家庭传感器和智能镜子，它提供连接和一组软件服务。根据拟议的协议，评估和分析所有这些技术的能源需求，以调查其对总体成本和用户体验的影响和相关性。

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Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Health Professions-Health Information Management

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期刊介绍： This book series was started in 1990 to promote research conducted under the auspices of the EC programmes’ Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) and Biomedical and Health Research (BHR) bioengineering branch. A driving aspect of international health informatics is that telecommunication technology, rehabilitative technology, intelligent home technology and many other components are moving together and form one integrated world of information and communication media.