Wearable interaction and home automation to improve the patient wellness: study of perceived benefits

The concept of Health Smart House aims at giving an autonomous life, in their own home, to people who suffering from a chronic disease, older, handicapped people, etc. However, developing a smart health system for home is a challenge. A long-term, it must meet the specific needs of any user. In addition, it must provide the most important daily services. That is, to design and develop smart health system is important to know patients' needs and the point of view of caregivers, doctors, nurses, etc. In this paper, we have based on a smart-home environment that use home automation and tangible and wearable interaction to improve the patients' quality of life. In order to know the point of view the patient, caregivers, doctors, etc. We conducted an expert survey to identify challenges and advantages in home automation and system interaction. The survey is divided into three sections: the patients' load cognitive using the system; the most useful variables related to data gathering through sensors, and the system social acceptance. Thanks to the results obtained, we contribute to a better understanding about important factors in healthcare, home automation and user interaction.

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