Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System

Health smart homes would enable people suffering from various diseases and handicaps to live an autonomous lifestyle in their own residences. The concept of the health smart home emphasizes ‘aging in place’, where residents enjoy a healthy independent life in their own homes as they become older. Wh...

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Main Authors: Kim, M., Lee, J., Wang, Xiangyu, Kim, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27009
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Lee, J.
Wang, Xiangyu
Kim, J.
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description Health smart homes would enable people suffering from various diseases and handicaps to live an autonomous lifestyle in their own residences. The concept of the health smart home emphasizes ‘aging in place’, where residents enjoy a healthy independent life in their own homes as they become older. While energy saving is one of the crucial issues to be addressed in domestic buildings, there is little research into household energy consumption in health smart homes. This paper identifies each variable’s implications for health smart home services and highlights its application to energy consumption awareness. We also introduce Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) to simulate energy consumption awareness in health smart homes. Firstly, the research proposes a framework for constructing health smart home services with a focus on the practicability of each variable from the perspective of supporting user experience in home settings. Rather than address each variable in isolation, we consider comprehensive issues in terms of service effectiveness in supporting a healthy life at home. Additionally, the innovative MAR application associated with energy use is presented as a new solution for household energy consumption awareness. The proposed application will be a basis for the perspectives of future research directions on health smart home services.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-270092017-11-22T04:11:16Z Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System Kim, M. Lee, J. Wang, Xiangyu Kim, J. Health smart homes would enable people suffering from various diseases and handicaps to live an autonomous lifestyle in their own residences. The concept of the health smart home emphasizes ‘aging in place’, where residents enjoy a healthy independent life in their own homes as they become older. While energy saving is one of the crucial issues to be addressed in domestic buildings, there is little research into household energy consumption in health smart homes. This paper identifies each variable’s implications for health smart home services and highlights its application to energy consumption awareness. We also introduce Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) to simulate energy consumption awareness in health smart homes. Firstly, the research proposes a framework for constructing health smart home services with a focus on the practicability of each variable from the perspective of supporting user experience in home settings. Rather than address each variable in isolation, we consider comprehensive issues in terms of service effectiveness in supporting a healthy life at home. Additionally, the innovative MAR application associated with energy use is presented as a new solution for household energy consumption awareness. The proposed application will be a basis for the perspectives of future research directions on health smart home services. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27009 10.1007/s10846-014-0114-x Kluwer Academic Publishers restricted
spellingShingle Kim, M.
Lee, J.
Wang, Xiangyu
Kim, J.
Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System
title Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System
title_full Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System
title_fullStr Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System
title_full_unstemmed Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System
title_short Health Smart Home Services incorporating a MAR-based Energy Consumption Awareness System
title_sort health smart home services incorporating a mar-based energy consumption awareness system
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27009