This document discusses the CASALA Living Lab, which conducts research on delivering feedback to users about their health, home security, and energy usage using sensors in ambient assisted living homes. The CASALA Living Lab has multiple stages, including virtual environments, a facility called Great Northern Haven with over 2,000 sensors collecting data from 16 apartments, and community deployments. The lab aims to understand user behavior from real-world data and provide feedback to empower users. Challenges include lack of market awareness for ambient assisted living and siloed funding, while successes involve end-user involvement and driving education and adoption of these technologies.

1. Delivery of feedback on Health, Home Security and
Home Energy in Aware Homes – The CASALA
Julie Doyle, John Loane, Lorcan Walsh, Brian O’Mullane
BCS HCI 2012

2. CASALA Living Lab
• Member of ENOLL
• Living Lab:
– Stage 1 – CAVE (virtual environment and home-in-
lab)
– Stage 2 – Great Northern Haven: Ambient Assisted
Living
– Stage 3 – Community deployments

3. The Great Northern Haven
16 Apartments
100+ Sensors & Actuators
Per Apartment
2,240 Sensors & Actuators
Throughout Building
100+ Million Database
Records
07/05/11

4. Lux
PIR Internet
Sensors
Sensors Connected TV
Touchscreen
Device
Temperature
Sensors
Electricity,
Water &
Heating Usage Window
Sensors Sensors
Door
07/05/11 Sensors

5. Real People
+
Real Lives
=
Real-World Data
Patrick
07/05/11 Age 70

6. Data Visualisations
Active Individual Inactive Individual

7. Closing the Loop in AAL - Feedback
www.casala.ie

8. Bottlenecks
• Understand the market – the consumer isn’t
saying they want AAL
• Service providers don’t necessarily know
about AAL
• Concrete silos
– Fixed budgets
• Lack of industry engagement
www.casala.ie

9. Successes
• End-user involvement – real people, real-
world data, longitudinal
• Not just monitoring – provide feedback to end
users of AAL technologies, empowerment
• Not just technology! AAL needs to be
integrated with service provision
– E.g. CASALA advocating for advanced nurse
practitioner who is aware of available technology
• Develop, drive and educate the market
www.casala.ie

10. julie.doyle@casala.ie
WWW.CASALA.IE
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