| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| ADL | Activities of Daily Living |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AmI | ambient intelligence |
| ANOVA | analysis of variance |
| ANS | autonomic nervous system |
| BAN | body area network |
| BP | blood pressure |
| BPSD | behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia |
| BSN | body sensor network |
| CBF | content-based filtering |
| CDR | Clinical Dementia Rating |
| CF | collaborative filtering |
| CL | contrastive learning |
| CNN | convolutional neural network |
| CPU | central processing unit |
| DNN | deep neural network |
| ECG | electrocardiography |
| EDA | electrodermal activity |
| EDR | electrodermal response |
| EEG | electroencephalography |
| EMG | electromyography |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GSR | galvanic skin response |
| HR | heart rate |
| HRV | heart rate variability |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IR | information retrieval |
| kNN | k-nearest neighbours |
| LDA | latent dirichlet allocation |
| LSTM | long short-term memory |
| MADM | multiple-attribute decision making |
| MAP | mean average precision |
| MEC | mobile edge computing |
| MLP | multi-layer perceptron |
| MMSE | Mini-Mental State Examination |
| MPR | mean percentile rank |
| MRR | mean reciprocal rank |
| MRS | music recommender system |
| NDCG | normalised discounted cumulative gain |
| NFC | near field communication |
| NLP | natural language processing |
| PLSA | probability-based latent semantic analysis |
| PPG | photoplethysmography |
| PwD | people with dementia |
| RMSE | root mean square error |
| RNN | recurrent neural network |
| RS | recommender system |
| RF | random forest |
| SCL | skin conductance level |
| SCR | skin conductance response |
| SMB | smart music box |
| SNS | sympathetic nervous system |
| SVD | singular value decomposition |
| SVM | support vector machine |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| XIM | eXperience Induction Machine |