Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Lifelogging services for older and frail people: the PAAL project

Developed countries around the world are facing crucial challenges regarding health and social care because of the demographic change and current economic context. Innovation in technologies and services for Active and Assisted Living stands out as a promising solution to address these challenges, while profiting from the economic opportunities. For instance, lifelogging technologies may enable and motivate individuals to pervasively capture data about them, their environment and the people with whom they interact, in order to receive a variety of services to increase their health, well-being and independence. In this context, the PAAL project presented in this paper has been conceived, with a manifold aim: to increase the awareness about the ethical, legal, social and privacy issues associated to lifelogging technologies; to propose privacy-aware lifelogging services for older people, evaluating their acceptability issues and barriers to familiarity with technology; to develop specific applications referred to relevant use cases for older and frail people.