A Historical View of Active Assisted Living

2025
Sara Colantonio, Slavisa Aleksic, Sintija Petroviča-Kļaviņa, Māra Romanovska

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.

Keywords
AAL taxonomy; Active assisted living (AAL); Audio-signal processing; Computer vision; Data sensing and processing; Multimodality; Silver economy; Wearable sensing
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1

Colantonio, S., Aleksic, S., Petroviča-Kļaviņa, S., Romanovska, M. et al. A Historical View of Active Assisted Living. No: Privacy-Aware Monitoring for Assisted Living. Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Vol.270. A.Salah, L.Colonna, F.Florez-Revuelta red. Cham: Springer, 2025. 3.-44.lpp. ISBN 978-3-031-84157-6. e-ISBN 978-3-031-84158-3. Pieejams: doi:10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1

Publication language
English (en)