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Ambient Assistive Technologies (AAT): socio-technology as a powerful tool for facing the inevitable sociodemographic challenges?

Overview of attention for article published in Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, June 2010
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Title
Ambient Assistive Technologies (AAT): socio-technology as a powerful tool for facing the inevitable sociodemographic challenges?
Published in
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, June 2010
DOI 10.1186/1747-5341-5-8
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Astrid M Schülke, Herbert Plischke, Niko B Kohls

Abstract

Due to the socio-demographic change in most developed western countries, elderly populations have been continuously increasing. Therefore, preventive and assistive systems that allow elderly people to independently live in their own homes as long as possible will become an economical if not ethical necessity. These respective technologies are being developed under the term "Ambient Assistive Technologies" (AAT). The EU-funded AAT-project Ambient Lighting Assistance for an Ageing Population (ALADIN) has established the long-term goal to create an adaptive system capable of improving the residential lighting conditions of single living elderly persons also aiming at supporting the preservation of their independence.Results of an earlier survey revealed that the elderly perceived their current lighting situation as satisfactory, whereas interviewers assessed in-house lighting as too dark and risk-laden. The overall results of ALADIN showed a significant increase in well-being from the baseline final testing with the new adaptive lighting system.Positive results for wellbeing and life quality suggest that the outcome effects may be attributed to the introduction of technology as well as to social contacts arising from participating in the study. The technological guidance of the study supervisors, in particular, may have produced a strong social reactivity effect that was first observed in the famous Hawthorne experiments in the 1930s. As older adults seem to benefit both from meaningful social contacts as well as assistive technologies, the question arises how assistive technology can be socially embedded to be able to maximize positive health effects. Therefore ethical guidelines for development and use of new assistive technologies for handicapped/older persons have to be developed and should be discussed with regard to their applicability in the context of AAT.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
Germany 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Pakistan 1 1%
Jamaica 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 60 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 22%
Researcher 11 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 21%
Social Sciences 10 15%
Computer Science 8 12%
Psychology 7 10%
Engineering 4 6%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 14 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 July 2018.
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