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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2014

A smart kitchen for ambient assisted living.

Rubén Blasco, Álvaro Marco, Roberto Casas, Diego Cirujano, Richard Picking

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
55.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rubén BlascoInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, C\Mariano Esquillor s/n, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. rblasco@unizar.es.
Álvaro MarcoInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, C\Mariano Esquillor s/n, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. amarco@unizar.es.
Roberto CasasInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, C\Mariano Esquillor s/n, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. rcasas@unizar.es.
Diego CirujanoInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, C\Mariano Esquillor s/n, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. dcirujano@humanopenware.com.
Richard PickingInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, C\Mariano Esquillor s/n, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. r.picking@glyndwr.ac.uk.
Universidad de Zaragoza · ESWrexham University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The kitchen environment is one of the scenarios in the home where users can benefit from Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. Moreover, it is the place where old people suffer from most domestic injuries. This paper presents a novel design, implementation and assessment of a Smart Kitchen which provides Ambient Assisted Living services; a smart environment that increases elderly and disabled people's autonomy in their kitchen-related activities through context and user awareness, appropriate user interaction and artificial intelligence. It is based on a modular architecture which integrates a wide variety of home technology (household appliances, sensors, user interfaces, etc.) and associated communication standards and media (power line, radio frequency, infrared and cabled). Its software architecture is based on the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi), which allows building a complex system composed of small modules, each one providing the specific functionalities required, and can be easily scaled to meet our needs. The system has been evaluated by a large number of real users (63) and carers (31) in two living labs in Spain and UK. Results show a large potential of system functionalities combined with good usability and physical, sensory and cognitive accessibility.

Indexed as

Assisted Living FacilitiesArtificial IntelligenceHumansSoftwareSpainUnited KingdomUser-Computer Interface

Identifiers

PMID24445412
PMCPMC3926629
OpenAlexW2040541025

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