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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Dajani, Lubna Taylor, Carl |
| Abstract | This paper is a call for the technological provision of homecare to be seen in the wider context of the development of the Internet, and the connected benefits that it brings to the elderly citizen. Recent discussions on the Ubiquitous Web at MobileMonday New York [6] considered the social, technical and economic effects that the Ubiquitous Web will bring about. This paper highlights those effects relevant to in-home care. The imminent convergence of Web 2.0 technologies with personal health monitoring, affordable broadband fixed and mobile communications, and distributed data storage has the capability to deliver vast improvements to the in-home care environment. The advent of tools such as life logging, voice-based search and low-cost sensory monitoring enrich this convergence, and can generate significant social improvements for the elderly. The aging world population is increasingly living in dense urban conurbations, which bring the benefit of plentiful wired and wireless broadband communication technology. Tomorrow's elderly citizens will be familiar with distributed family groups, and will use digital communication technologies to ensure their everyday inclusiveness and with their families and social tribes. This paper presents the enabling technologies that will bear on the assistive home care environment and assesses their convergence. It concludes with the recommendation that home care technologies should not be developed in isolation, but that they should be developed in the realistic expectation of cost-effective wide-area broadband networks and web-based care services. Future designers of such care services should use web, mobile and broadband technologies to balance reliance between local and network devices, such that elderly citizens have ubiquity of support services where ever they may be, rather than becoming bound to their homes or health centers. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 4 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| ISBN | 9781605580678 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1389586.1389638 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2008-07-16 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Home care Life logging Near field communications Broadband Software as a service Zigbee Mobile Ubiquitous web Personal area network Interactive voice recognition Software Internet Sensors |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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