Hossain M Anwar, Alamri Atif, Almogren Ahmad S, Hossain S K Alamgir, Parra Jorge
College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), King Saud University, 11543 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Computer Science and Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh.
Sensors (Basel). 2014 Jun 16;14(6):10538-61. doi: 10.3390/s140610538.
Elderly people constitute a major portion of world's population. Many of them are physically and mentally vulnerable and need continuous support for their health and well-being. There is a growing trend that these elderly people are placed in an ambient assisted living environment (AAL) with an aim to receive better care and support. In such settings, a lot of attention has been given to continuous health monitoring for maintaining physical health status. However, much less attention has been given toward understanding the entertainment needs of the elderly people, which is an important factor relevant to their mental health and joyful living. This paper thus addresses the entertainment needs of the elderly and proposes a framework of an elderly entertainment support system. The proposed framework enables different categories of residents (e.g., elderly people and caregivers) to access various media services in both implicit and explicit manner in order to enhance the quality of their living experience in different contexts. Our experimental results demonstrate the viability of the proposed framework. We believe that the proposed approach will establish the need to develop entertainment systems and services for the elderly people and allow us to sensibly address the problems associated with their independent, happy and active living.
老年人占世界人口的很大一部分。他们中的许多人身体和精神都很脆弱，需要持续的健康和幸福支持。越来越多的趋势是，这些老年人被安置在环境辅助生活环境（AAL）中，旨在获得更好的护理和支持。在这样的环境中，为了维持身体健康状况，人们对持续健康监测给予了很多关注。然而，对于了解老年人的娱乐需求却关注甚少，而这是与他们的心理健康和快乐生活相关的一个重要因素。因此，本文探讨了老年人的娱乐需求，并提出了一个老年人娱乐支持系统的框架。所提出的框架使不同类别的居民（如老年人和护理人员）能够以隐式和显式方式访问各种媒体服务，以提高他们在不同情境下的生活体验质量。我们的实验结果证明了所提出框架的可行性。我们相信，所提出的方法将确立为老年人开发娱乐系统和服务的必要性，并使我们能够明智地解决与他们独立、快乐和积极生活相关的问题。
