**4.5 Elderly behavior library for searching for product usage by those with changing living function**

Changes in living function vary among the elderly. Unlike in the case of children, this makes it difficult to classify events by age, because living function varies significantly among people of the same age. We can specify "a bed for babies up to

**Figure 14.**

*Plot of walking pace monitored by mounted camera in a home.*

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**Author details**

provided the original work is properly cited.

Yoshifumi Nishida\* and Koji Kitamura

Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

\*Address all correspondence to: y.nishida@aist.go.jp

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Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial

*Living Function-Resilient Society in the Centenarian Era: Living Safety Technology Based…*

24 month old," but not "a chair for persons 75 years old and older". As a means to understanding life dimensions in the elderly, we created a library of videos showing how different products (beds, chairs, wheelchairs, canes, doors, kitchen tools, handrails) are used by the elderly, depending not only on age but also on cognitive ability, physical ability, and level of care needed [11]. **Figure 15** shows snapshots of the developed library. The library was launched in March 2018. Its use requires registration. The library is a pioneering attempt to show how elderly use items, such as to identify handrails that are easy to use. We intend that it will be used to identify problems and develop solutions. If you are interested, please contact us at the

In this report, based on our research, we describe "a living function-resilient society" as a desirable society and show the potential of AI and IoT technology to identify problems and resolve them. In terms of intelligence, to resolve issues associated with the variety in living function, we need to find innovative solutions using the variety in intelligence. Today, a society is emerging in which problems, data, and intelligence are ubiquitous. Sensing and recording technology is advancing and spreading throughout the society. Various organizations now store big data. In recent years, AI, such as data analysis technology, has been advancing. Human resources spread among universities, administrative organizations, care homes, regions, and companies can be linked to create an intelligence-ubiquitous society. New social issues emerge constantly. The type of innovation required today is the transformation of the society into an advanced interconnected society by using the ubiquity of

data and intelligence in modern society to address newly emerging issues.

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85422*

address provided on the website [12].

**5. Conclusions**

**Figure 15.**

*Searchable library of elderly behaviors for identifying changes in living function.*

*Living Function-Resilient Society in the Centenarian Era: Living Safety Technology Based… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85422*

24 month old," but not "a chair for persons 75 years old and older". As a means to understanding life dimensions in the elderly, we created a library of videos showing how different products (beds, chairs, wheelchairs, canes, doors, kitchen tools, handrails) are used by the elderly, depending not only on age but also on cognitive ability, physical ability, and level of care needed [11]. **Figure 15** shows snapshots of the developed library. The library was launched in March 2018. Its use requires registration. The library is a pioneering attempt to show how elderly use items, such as to identify handrails that are easy to use. We intend that it will be used to identify problems and develop solutions. If you are interested, please contact us at the address provided on the website [12].
