%D 2024
%K Built environment, community, smart home, smart home technology, age-friendly, ageing, frailty, sustainability, environment, net zero
%T Creating Resilient Smart Homes with a Heart: Sustainable technologically advanced housing across the lifespan and frailty through inclusive design for people and their robots
%O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
%L discovery10193332
%X The design of age-friendly homes benefits vulnerable groups, such as, frail people and older adults. Advances in smart home technologies, including robots, have important synergies with homes designed for health needs. Yet, focus on environmental and sustainable housing design and improvements misses important opportunities for collective impact. Stronger involvement of disciplines, such as, those from the built environment for technological integration within homes, and effects on space and community, is needed. There is a need for unified framework integrating the needs and factors of the resident, smart home technologies and robots and the built envi-ronment, and that includes the concept of a “home”. With the remodelling of housing towards sustainable and environmental targets, and advances in smart home technologies such as robots, the timeliness of shared input for the benefit of residents now and in the future is of the essence. This would help target future research into effective and optimized cohabitation with technology within homes for improving the wellbeing of residents.
%I MDPI AG
%J Sustainability
%A Evangelia Chrysikou
%A Jane Biddulph
%A Fernando Loizides
%A Eleftheria Savvopoulou
%A Jonas Rehn-Groenendijk
%A Amy Dennis-Jones
%A Akashi Nandi
%A Chariklia Tziraki