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A dependents’ cooperative location network for behaviour analysis in public spaces
This document contains the Table of Contents, Foreword & Introduction.Many dependents such as children, elderly or disabled people get lost or missing,
but as dependents, they often lack the skills to protect themselves, and carers cannot
keep their dependents in sight all of the time. Therefore, the challenge to be tackled in
this paper is to develop a dependents’ cooperative location network over which carers
could monitor the dependents’ positions in real time, giving them more freedom to safely
roam within public spaces. Not only in open spaces such as crowded parks or streets, but
also inside buildings such as city malls, museums or nursing homes. The aim of this paper
is twofold, to create a cooperative and dynamic network of carers over which to monitor the
position of their dependents by means of standardised technologies, and to understand
how the physical environment could influence dependents’ activities by means of
behavioural analysis in public spaces.Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Unionpeer-reviewe