A smart home is a residence equipped with smart technologies aimed at providing tailored
services for users. Smart technologies make it possible to monitor, control and support …

Background Around the world, populations are aging and there is a growing concern about
ways that older adults can maintain their health and well-being while living in their homes …

From an accessibility perspective, voice-controlled, home-based intelligent personal
assistants (IPAs) have the potential to greatly expand speech interaction beyond dictation …

Background Older people generally prefer to continue living in their own homes rather than
move into residential age care institutions. Assistive technologies and sensors in the home …

As voice-based conversational agents such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant move
into our homes, researchers have studied the corresponding privacy implications …

Background: Most older adults prefer to age in place, and supporting older adults to remain
in their own homes and communities is also favored by policy makers. Technology can play …

Technology has recently begun to be explored as a way to cope with the challenges related
to the aging of the population. However, while many technological systems for older adults …

Published research on smart homes and their users is growing exponentially, yet a clear
understanding of who these users are and how they might use smart home technologies is …

A method for detecting falls in the homes of older adults using the Microsoft Kinect and a two-
stage fall detection system is presented. The first stage of the detection system characterizes …

Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) have the potential to support older adults' independent
living. However, despite a growing body of research focusing on IVA use, we know little …