Using Low-Cost Technologies in the Development of People-Monitoring Applications

Nowadays, population aging is a phenomenon that has attracted the interest of several areas of research such as Health, Social Sciences, and Economics. Associated to need of guaranteeing the welfare and the quality of life, is the difficulty of providing support for people who require full-time monitoring, not limited to just the elderly. This paper presents the initial results of a study that investigates the feasibility of using low-cost technologies, in this case, the Microsoft Kinect for building interfaces which exempt the use of specific devices for tracking people.