Perceptions of seniors with heart failure regarding autonomous zero-effort monitoring of physiological parameters in the smart-home environment.

Background: Technological advances are leading to the ability to autonomously monitor patient's health status in their own homes, to enable aging-in-place.

Objectives: To understand the perceptions of seniors with heart failure (HF) regarding smart-home systems to monitor their physiological parameters.

Methods: In this qualitative study, HF outpatients were invited to a smart-home lab, where they completed a sequence of activities, during which the capacity of 5 autonomous sensing modalities was compared to gold standard measures.