Creating resilient smart homes with a heart: sustainable, technologically advanced housing across the lifespan and frailty through inclusive design for people and their robots

Chrysikou, Evangelia, Biddulph, Jane P., Loizides, Fernando ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0531-6760, Savvopoulou, Eleftheria, Rehn-Groenendijk, Jonas, Jones, Nathan, Dennis-Jones, Amy and Tziraki, Chariklia 2024. Creating resilient smart homes with a heart: sustainable, technologically advanced housing across the lifespan and frailty through inclusive design for people and their robots. Sustainability 16 (4) , 5837. 10.3390/su16145837

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Abstract

The design of age-friendly homes benefits vulnerable groups, such as frail people and older adults. Advances in smart home technologies, including robots, have important synergies with homes designed for health needs. Yet, focus on environmental and sustainable housing design and improvements misses important opportunities for collective impact. Stronger involvement of disciplines, such as those from the built environment for technological integration within homes and effects on space and the community, is needed. There is a need for a unified framework integrating the needs and factors of the resident, smart home technologies and robots, and the built environment, and that includes the concept of a “home”. With the remodeling of housing towards sustainable and environmental targets, as well as advances in smart home technologies such as robots, the timeliness of shared input for the benefit of residents now and in the future is of the essence. This would help target future research into effective and optimized cohabitation with technology within homes for the purpose of improving the wellbeing of residents.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	2071-1050
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	11 June 2024
Last Modified:	09 Jul 2024 10:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170427

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