A real case study of assistive living ecosystems

Assistive technologies are directly linked to the elderly and the disabled people. The necessary services offered by an assistive technologies ecosystem are provided mostly through internet. It is also well known that elderly and disabled people find difficult to access the internet. The resulting challenge is to discover a combination of assistive technologies, meaning devices and software interface characteristics in order to give the opportunity to elderly and disabled to access the internet and enhance their autonomy to the extent made possible by electronic services. To address this, we elaborate on the concept of ecosystems to propose the notion of assistive living ecosystems for the design of a common framework and present a real example of a platform that builds on the notions of assistive environment exploiting technologies that empower elderly autonomy.