AIDE-VR: ambiente virtual para validação de sistemas em cenários de Ambient Assisted Living usando realidade virtual

Abstract

An Ambient Assisted Living system is intended to support its user by increasing their autonomy in their living environments against their limitations, and for this a set of hardware and other systems, currently heterogeneous, are required to it can act. The complexity of this type of system is notorious, especially when it comes to solutions that are intended for individuals with limitations. The Virtual Living Lab philosophy comes with the proposal to offer the developer of these systems a tool that allows him to create virtual simulations in which he can evaluate his projects relatively cheaply, this philosophy can help in the application of agile methodologies in such projects, seeking greater acceptance of the user to the solution, saving it from the risks inherent to testing products in a real environment. But while there are tools that give developer stheability to create such virtual environments,they do not yet have mechanisms to immerse the end-user into those environments, reducing the validity of the testing of these solutions. Thiswork, therefore,presents an extension of a tool that implements this philosophy, adding to it, the possibility to offer to the developer, the method of interaction in Virtual Reality, so that it can perform tests immersing its users in the simulated environments