Delivery of feedback on Health, Home Security and Home Energy in Aware Homes – The CASALA

Julie Doyle, John Loane, Lorcan Walsh, Brian O’Mullane

BCS HCI 2012

CASALA Living Lab

• Member of ENOLL• Living Lab:

– Stage 1 – CAVE (virtual environment and home-in-lab)

– Stage 2 – Great Northern Haven: Ambient Assisted Living

– Stage 3 – Community deployments

07/05/11

The Great Northern Haven

16 Apartments

2,240 Sensors & ActuatorsThroughout Building

100+ Sensors & ActuatorsPer Apartment

100+ Million Database Records

07/05/11

DoorSensors

WindowSensors

TemperatureSensors

Touchscreen Device

InternetConnected TV

PIRSensors

Electricity,Water &Heating UsageSensors

LuxSensors

07/05/11

Real People +Real Lives

=Real-World Data

PatrickAge 70

Active Individual Inactive Individual

Data Visualisations

www.casala.ie

Closing the Loop in AAL - Feedback

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Bottlenecks

• Understand the market – the consumer isn’t saying they want AAL

• Service providers don’t necessarily know about AAL

• Concrete silos– Fixed budgets

• Lack of industry engagement

www.casala.ie

Successes

• End-user involvement – real people, real-world data, longitudinal

• Not just monitoring – provide feedback to end users of AAL technologies, empowerment

• Not just technology! AAL needs to be integrated with service provision– E.g. CASALA advocating for advanced nurse

practitioner who is aware of available technology• Develop, drive and educate the market

Thank You

julie.doyle@casala.ie

WWW.CASALA.IE