Augmented Coaching Ecosystem for Non-obtrusive Adaptive Personalized Elderly Care on the Basis of Cloud-Fog-Dew Computing Paradigm

TL;DR

This paper proposes an augmented coaching ecosystem leveraging Cloud-Fog-Dew computing, IoT, AR, and ML to provide non-obtrusive, personalized elderly care while reducing interaction complexity and workload for caregivers and users.

Contribution

It introduces a novel layered ecosystem architecture that integrates multiple ICT approaches for efficient, personalized elderly care with minimized human interaction.

Findings

Reduces human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions

Enhances personalized elderly care through AR and IoT integration

Provides a scalable, layered computing framework for elderly support

Abstract

The concept of the augmented coaching ecosystem for non-obtrusive adaptive personalized elderly care is proposed on the basis of the integration of new and available ICT approaches. They include the multimodal user interface (MMUI), augmented reality (AR), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), and machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions. The ecosystem is based on the Cloud-Fog-Dew computing paradigm services, providing a full symbiosis by integrating the whole range from low-level sensors up to high-level services using integration efficiency inherent in synergistic use of applied technologies. Inside of this ecosystem, all of them are encapsulated in the following network layers: Dew, Fog, and Cloud computing layer. Instead of the "spaghetti connections", "mosaic of buttons", "puzzles of output data", etc., the proposed ecosystem provides the strict division in the following dataflow channels: consumer interaction channel, machine interaction channel, and caregiver interaction channel. This concept allows to decrease the physical, cognitive, and mental load on elderly care stakeholders by decreasing the secondary human-to-human (H2H), human-to-machine (H2M), and machine-to-human (M2H) interactions in favor of M2M interactions and distributed Dew Computing services environment. It allows to apply this non-obtrusive augmented reality ecosystem for effective personalized elderly care to preserve their physical, cognitive, mental and social well-being.