The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space
The world’s population is rapidly ageing, which places a heavy burden on traditional healthcare systems with increased economic and social costs. Technology can assist in the implementation of strategies that enable active and independent ageing by promoting and motivating health-related behaviours,...
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| author | Ewa Lach Anna Szewczenko Iwona Chuchnowska Natalia Bursiewicz Iwona Benek Sylwia Widzisz-Pronobis Daria Bal Klaudia Elsner Marta Sanigórska Mateusz Sutor Jakub Włodarz |
| author_facet | Ewa Lach Anna Szewczenko Iwona Chuchnowska Natalia Bursiewicz Iwona Benek Sylwia Widzisz-Pronobis Daria Bal Klaudia Elsner Marta Sanigórska Mateusz Sutor Jakub Włodarz |
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| description | The world’s population is rapidly ageing, which places a heavy burden on traditional healthcare systems with increased economic and social costs. Technology can assist in the implementation of strategies that enable active and independent ageing by promoting and motivating health-related behaviours, monitoring, and collecting data on daily life for assessment and for aiding in independent living. ICT (Information and Communication Technology) tools can help prevent cognitive and physical decline and social isolation, and enable elderly people to live independently. In this paper, we introduced a comprehensive tool for guiding seniors along the designed urban health paths employing urban architecture as an impulse to perform physical and cognitive exercises. The behaviour of seniors is monitored during their activities using wearable sensors and mobile application. We distinguished three types of data recipients (seniors, path/exercise designers, and the public), for whom we proposed methods of analysing the obtained data and examples of their use. In this work, a wide range of diverse information was examined from which short- and long-term patterns can be drawn. We have also shown that by fusing sensory data and data from mobile applications, we can give context to sensory data, thanks to which we can formulate more insightful assessments of seniors’ behaviour. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf2eeb5670ee460da7cfacef68e94d892023-11-16T18:03:28ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-02-01233160210.3390/s23031602The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban SpaceEwa Lach0Anna Szewczenko1Iwona Chuchnowska2Natalia Bursiewicz3Iwona Benek4Sylwia Widzisz-Pronobis5Daria Bal6Klaudia Elsner7Marta Sanigórska8Mateusz Sutor9Jakub Włodarz10Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandInstitute of History and Archival Studies, Pedagogical University of KEN in Cracow, 30-084 Krakow, PolandFaculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandJoint Doctoral School, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandFaculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, PolandThe world’s population is rapidly ageing, which places a heavy burden on traditional healthcare systems with increased economic and social costs. Technology can assist in the implementation of strategies that enable active and independent ageing by promoting and motivating health-related behaviours, monitoring, and collecting data on daily life for assessment and for aiding in independent living. ICT (Information and Communication Technology) tools can help prevent cognitive and physical decline and social isolation, and enable elderly people to live independently. In this paper, we introduced a comprehensive tool for guiding seniors along the designed urban health paths employing urban architecture as an impulse to perform physical and cognitive exercises. The behaviour of seniors is monitored during their activities using wearable sensors and mobile application. We distinguished three types of data recipients (seniors, path/exercise designers, and the public), for whom we proposed methods of analysing the obtained data and examples of their use. In this work, a wide range of diverse information was examined from which short- and long-term patterns can be drawn. We have also shown that by fusing sensory data and data from mobile applications, we can give context to sensory data, thanks to which we can formulate more insightful assessments of seniors’ behaviour.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1602elderlyactive ageingmonitoringmobile applicationwearable sensorsactive urban space |
| spellingShingle | Ewa Lach Anna Szewczenko Iwona Chuchnowska Natalia Bursiewicz Iwona Benek Sylwia Widzisz-Pronobis Daria Bal Klaudia Elsner Marta Sanigórska Mateusz Sutor Jakub Włodarz The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space Sensors elderly active ageing monitoring mobile application wearable sensors active urban space |
| title | The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space |
| title_full | The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space |
| title_fullStr | The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space |
| title_short | The Problem of Monitoring the Psycho-Physical Condition of Seniors during Proposed Activities in Urban Space |
| title_sort | problem of monitoring the psycho physical condition of seniors during proposed activities in urban space |
| topic | elderly active ageing monitoring mobile application wearable sensors active urban space |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1602 |
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