About Us Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living This IMIA Working Group provides a forum for ongoing discussion and a collaborative platform for research and development combining expertise in engineering, sensor technologies, ubiquitous computing, health systems, gerontology and human computer interaction. Technology advances rapidly and it is an imperative for the informatics community to ensure that smart home applications are designed, implemented and evaluated properly addressing not only technical challenges but also the end users’ needs, ethical, clinical and policy issues and the design of sustainable and non-obtrusive interventions. This working group focuses on the wide spectrum of all relevant issues and provide a holistic examination of the current status and future trends in smart homes and ambient assisted living. Areas of Focus The working group focuses on the following areas: design and development of technological home-based innovative solutions including sensor technologies, activity monitors, wearable technologies etc. interoperability of smart home components integration of smart home monitoring data sets into electronic medical record systems development of algorithms and data mining techniques for reasoning, temporal modelling and detection of patterns, leading ultimately to decision making design of ICT based models that support aging in place formative and summative evaluation of smart homes and ambient assisted living applications analysis of ethical issues associated with technology integration in the residence and increased monitoring of residents definition of obtrusiveness in the context of smart homes social connectedness and sustainable development of citizenship development of policy directives design of financially sustainable models (including the design of cost-effectiveness studies for these technologies)