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ALADIN - a Magic Lamp for the Elderly?

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Like Aladdin in the medieval oriental folk-tale, the assistive lighting system developed by ALADIN (Ambient Lighting Assistance for an Ageing Population), a research project co-financed by the European Commission, is expected to bring enchantment to people’s lives. But this will not be achieved by magic and genies, but by exploiting our knowledge about the impact of lighting. adaptive lighting can contribute considerably to sound sleep and a regular sleep-wake cycle regulated by people’s ’inner clock’. This tends to deteriorate with ageing, but is essential to preserve and enhance comfort and wellbeing. And this is the main goal of the assistive ALADIN lighting system.

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  1. User Centered Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Austria, and University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Edith Maier

  2. User Centered Technologies, Hochschulstrasse 1, 6850, Dornbirn, Austria

    Guido Kempter

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  1. Future University Hakodate, Kameda-Nakano 116-2, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8655, Japan

    Hideyuki Nakashima

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305-9515, USA

    Hamid Aghajan

  3. School of Computing & Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, UK, BT37 0QB

    Juan Carlos Augusto

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Maier, E., Kempter, G. (2010). ALADIN - a Magic Lamp for the Elderly?. In: Nakashima, H., Aghajan, H., Augusto, J.C. (eds) Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_44

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