Title :
Smart districts in an ageing society
Author :
Schulz, A. ; Arnold, O. ; Kirsch, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Comput. Sci., Erfurt Univ. of Appl. Sci., Erfurt, Germany
Abstract :
Smart technologies promise to increase the quality of living and life - especially for elderly and impaired people. Following the “Smart City” paradigm, new challenges arise to increase the attractiveness of a residential district. This paper analyses driving and inhibiting factors in Smart Districts by a case study focusing the ageing society. It turns out that Natural User Interfaces can be seen as a forcing technology. As a result, domain-specific conditions and concepts are proposed to be implemented in dialogue systems for adaptive service provision. Objectives are to reduce the acceptance thresholds and to generate added value for all stakeholders.
Keywords :
adaptive systems; assisted living; geriatrics; handicapped aids; interactive systems; smart cities; user interfaces; Smart City paradigm; Smart Districts; acceptance threshold reduction; adaptive service provision; added value generation; ageing society; case study; dialogue system; domain-specific concept; domain-specific condition; driving factor analysis; elderly life quality; elderly living quality; forcing technology; impaired people life quality; impaired people living quality; inhibiting factor analysis; natural user interfaces; residential district; smart technology; Adaptation models; Adaptive systems; Aging; Cities and towns; Media; Senior citizens; User interfaces; ICT; ageing society; ambient assisted living; autonomous life; dialogue system; elderly; high quality living; impaired; real estate; smart city; smart district; smart planet;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2014 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
DOI :
10.1109/GCCE.2014.7031158
