A Historical View of Active Assisted Living

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2025

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Colantonio, Sara
Aleksic, Slavisa
Calleja Agius, Jean
Camilleri, Kenneth P.
Čartolovni, Anto
Climent-Pérez, Pau
Cristina, Stefania
Despotovic, Vladimir
Ekenel, Hazım Kemal
Erakin, Mustafa Ekrem

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Abstract

Active assisted living (AAL) aims to use innovative technologies to create supportive, inclusive, and empowering applications and environments that enable older, impaired or frail people to live independently and stay active longer in society. This chapter provides an introduction to the main concepts of AAL, provides a brief history of the evolution of such technologies, and gives a functional view of how AAL system architecture can be conceptualized. It then provides a taxonomy of AAL technologies and applications, followed by technological underpinnings of audio- and video- based AAL.

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AAL taxonomy, Active assisted living (AAL), Audio-signal processing, Computer vision, Data sensing and processing, Multimodality, Silver economy, Wearable sensing, General Computer Science, Information Systems and Management, Library and Information Sciences

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Colantonio, S, Aleksic, S, Calleja Agius, J, Camilleri, K P, Čartolovni, A, Climent-Pérez, P, Cristina, S, Despotovic, V, Ekenel, H K, Erakin, M E, Florez-Revuelta, F, Germanese, D, Grech, N, Emirzeoğlu, M, Iliev, I, Islind, A S, Jovanovic, M, Kampel, M, Kearns, W, Klimczuk, A, Lambrinos, L, Lumetzberger, J, Mucha, W, Noiret, S, Pajalic, Z, Pérez-Rodríguez, R, Petrova, G, Petrovica-Klavina, S, Počta, P, Poli, A, Romanovska, M, Salah, A A, Santofimia, M J, Sigurðardóttir, S G, Spinsante, S, Stoicu-Tivadar, L, Tellioğlu, H & Zgank, A 2025, A Historical View of Active Assisted Living. in Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol. 270, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 3-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1