Advanced Sensors for Supportive Environments for the Elderly
This two-year, EPSRC-funded project will undertake research into monitored supportive environments for the elderly and disabled living alone. In particular it will investigate the applicability and feasibility of various levels of automatic monitoring using intelligent visual sensors. It will identify the requirements of users of supportive home environments. These include occupants, family members, and professional carers. The project will build and evaluate a prototype monitoring system to demonstrate the technological feasibility of the proposed approach. The prototype demonstrator along with the requirements and design guidelines produced by this study are intended to ‘lay the foundations’ for subsequent development.
Funder: EPSRC
Start Date: 06/01/2001
End Date: 30/09/2003
Research Themes:
- Healthcare Computing
- Computer Vision
- Software Methods for Age and Disability
- Software Methods for Age and Disability
For further information about the Advanced Sensors for Supportive Environments for the Elderly project please contact Professor Stephen McKenna.
Or visit the website at: http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/supportiveenvironments