Analysis of Human Behavior in Five Healthcare Centers for the Development of New Technologies, in Support of the Improvement of Life Quality

With a U-turn on the traditional view that people need to adapt to technological innovations and their surrounding environment by merely reacting to the machines’ inputs, a new approach places the human being at the center of the picture, with technology serving humans by providing the right services for users and their environments. The exploration of the different aspects of human behavior in daily life contexts can contribute to the development of smart devices, in order to improve people’s quality of life, notably non-self-sufficient senior people. Of the four sections of the research, in this paper we will concentrate on the 75 observations who took place in 5 facilities, in order to gather information about behaviors of the elderly that live in. The checklists’ analysis shows that both men and women seem to act, physically react and voice their discomfort more in relation to cold. A huge gap seem to exist between the perceptions of senior people and those of the healthcare workers that take care of them. The aim of this study is understanding human beings through the detection of their actions and physical reactions, taking their everyday-life environments into account, in order to develop smart devices that can truly ensure users’ comfort.