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外文文献: Increasing an individual ’s quality of life via their intelligent home The hypothesis of this project is: can an individual ’s quality of life be increased by integrating “ intelligent technology ” into their home environment. This hypothesis is very broad, and hence the researchers will investigate it with regard to various, potentially over-lapping, sub-sections of the population. In particular, the project will focus on sub-sections with health-care needs, because it is believed that these sub-sections will receive the greatest benefit from this enhanced approach to housing. Two research questions flow from this hypothesis: what are the health-care issues that could be improved via “ intelligent housing ”, and what are the technological issues needing tobe solved to allow “ intelligent housing ” tobe constructed? While a small number of initiatives exist, outside Canada, which claim to investigate this area, none has the global vision of this area. Work tends tobe in small areas with only a limited idea ofhow the individual pieces contribute towards a greater goal. This project has a very strong sense of what it is trying to attempt, and believes that without this global direction the other initiatives will fail to address the large important issues described within various parts of this proposal, and that with the correct global direction the sum of the parts will produce much greater rewards than the ponents. This new field has many parallels with the field of business process engineering, where many products fail due to only considering a sub-set of the issues, typically the technology subset. essful projects and implementations only started flow when people started to realize that a holistic approach was essential. This holistic requirement also applies to the field of“ smart housing ”; if we genuinely want it to have benefit to munity rather than just technological interest. Having said this, much of the work outlined below is extremely important and c