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

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2014 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCCE.2014.7031158

Filename

7031158