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DOMHO: Internet of Things for Ambient Assisted Co-housing

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Ambient Assisted Living (ForItAAL 2020)

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Technologies must be conceived as a valid support for every final user. The DOMHO project applies the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to Ambient Assisted Living. The present work describes the design and development, based on a participatory design approach, of a smart apartment for ambient assisted co-housing for people affected by motor and cognitive impairments. This smart environment featured intelligent lighting, environmental sensors, and automation, manageable through a user interface, for mobile devices, and voice commands. The intelligent apartment will allow testing of the fully integrated DOMHO system in a real-world context. The objective is to assess its ability in promoting independence, autonomy, social interaction, and therefore the overall well-being of people with disabilities.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the POR FESR 2014–2020 Work Program of the Veneto Region (Action 1.1.4) through the project No. 10066183 titled “Sistema domotico IoT integrato ad elevata sicurezza informatica per smart building”.

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  1. Human Inspired Technology Research Centre, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Luciano Gamberini, Patrik Pluchino, Andrea Zanella, Daniela Mapelli, Sara Mondini, Gianluca Campana, Sabrina Cipolletta & Anna Spagnolli

  2. Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Luciano Gamberini, Davide Bacchin, Patrik Pluchino, Adriana Zoe Grippaldi, Daniela Mapelli, Sara Mondini, Gianluca Campana, Sabrina Cipolletta & Anna Spagnolli

  3. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Andrea Zanella

  4. L’Incontro Social Enterprise, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

    Giulia Dainese & Valentina Campagnaro

  5. Rete Innovativa Regionale (RIR) Venetian Smart Lighting Villa Cà Marcello, Padua, Italy

    Alberto Sozza

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Gamberini, L. et al. (2022). DOMHO: Internet of Things for Ambient Assisted Co-housing. In: Bettelli, A., Monteriù, A., Gamberini, L. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ForItAAL 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 884. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08838-4_8

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