Department of Computing, State University of Paraiba, Campina Grande, Brazil.
School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
BMJ Open. 2020 Oct 31;10(10):e033758. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033758.
For the first time in human history, the number of older people will be higher than the number of children. The prevalence of chronic diseases, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and mental disorders in older adults is high. Given that, it is essential to make usage of related technology to provide improved health conditions and reduce the costs for promoting ageing in place, and that is precisely the aim of Ambient Assisted Living technology. Considering that these systems provide significant benefit to a vast number of stakeholders, can be applied to the functional diversity of application domains and have high economic and social impacts, it is essential to create reusable and interoperable platforms and standards that are able to deal with the heterogeneity of applications and domains. In this sense, reference architectures have been proposed and evaluated. A comprehensive scoping review concerning the reference architectures must clarify specific aspects, such as what the main domains are and how the solutions effectively deal with them.
This scoping review will follow the methodology framework defined in 'Scoping studies: advancing the methodology'. In this methodological framework, six stages are proposed for scoping review studies: identifying the research question; identifying relevant studies; study selection; charting the data; collating, summarising and reporting the results; and consultation. The research questions aim to investigate what are the motivations, stakeholders, benefits, domains, approaches, architectural components and governance aspects of the proposed reference architectures and models. The team will focus on the Scopus Document Search, PubMed (MEDLINE), IEEE Xplore Digital Library, ACM Digital Library and Science Direct electronic research databases. The search query is a combination of terms related to Ambient Assisted Living AND Reference Architecture.
This is a scoping review study and there is no requirement for ethical approval, as primary data will not be collected. The results from this scoping review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and reported at scientific meetings. We intend to share the results with the International Standards and Conformity Assessment - SyC AAL from Canada to use the review as a basis for establishing an assessment model of reference architectures.
人类历史上首次出现老年人数量超过儿童数量的情况。老年人普遍患有高血压、心血管疾病、糖尿病和精神障碍等慢性病。考虑到这一点，利用相关技术来改善健康状况并降低促进就地老龄化的成本至关重要，这正是“居住环境辅助生活”技术的目标。鉴于这些系统为数以万计的利益相关者带来了巨大的好处，可以应用于应用领域的功能多样性，并且具有很高的经济和社会影响，因此创建可重复使用且可互操作的平台和标准以应对应用和领域的异构性至关重要。在这方面，已经提出并评估了参考体系结构。必须对涉及参考体系结构的全面范围审查澄清具体方面，例如主要领域是什么，以及解决方案如何有效地解决这些问题。
本范围审查将遵循“范围研究：推进方法”中定义的方法框架。在这个方法框架中，为范围审查研究提出了六个阶段：确定研究问题；确定相关研究；研究选择；数据图表；整理、总结和报告结果；以及咨询。研究问题旨在调查所提出的参考体系结构和模型的动机、利益相关者、收益、领域、方法、体系结构组件和治理方面。该团队将专注于 Scopus 文献搜索、PubMed（MEDLINE）、IEEE Xplore 数字图书馆、ACM 数字图书馆和 Science Direct 电子研究数据库。搜索查询是与居住环境辅助生活和参考体系结构相关的术语的组合。
这是一项范围审查研究，不需要伦理批准，因为不会收集原始数据。这项范围审查的结果将发表在同行评议的期刊上，并在科学会议上报告。我们打算与加拿大国际标准和合格评定-SyC AAL 分享研究结果，以便将审查用作建立参考体系结构评估模型的基础。
