DocumentCode :
3685739
Title :
Building neuroscientific evidence and creating best practices for Active and Healthy Aging through ubiquitous exergaming and Living Labs
Author :
Panagiotis D. Bamidis
Author_Institution :
Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
fYear :
2015
Firstpage :
7756
Lastpage :
7759
Abstract :
Ageing is a major global demographic trend, which seems to be intensified. The earlier detection of risks associated with ageing, can enable earlier intervention to ameliorate their negative consequences. Many of these recent efforts are associated with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the stemming from them innovations in the fight against this age related decline and frailty. Ubiquitous unobtrusive monitoring and training (recently much blended by means of exergames) has become reality due to the availability of new mobile sensors and devices and the emergence of new technologies and services. The current piece of work presents the different milestones we have achieved as best practices during the past seven years of piloting training and exergaming ICT components in an effort to support Active and Healthy Aging. Our impact verification and results validation methodologies are revisited here in an effort to outline best practices and build up neuroscientific evidence. Finally, this paper demonstrates how the construction of an Active and Healthy Aging Living Lab was materialised in an attempt to gauge evidence based research in the field of active and health aging.
Keywords :
"Aging","Training","Senior citizens","Best practices","Sensors","Technological innovation","Sociology"
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
ISSN :
1094-687X
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4615
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320190
Filename :
7320190
Link To Document :
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