Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults and their Caregivers | |
An Intelligent RFID System for Improving Elderly Daily Life Independent in Indoor Environment | p. 1 |
HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementia | p. 9 |
Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prosthetics | p. 18 |
Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing | |
An Integrated Approach to Context Specification and Recognition in Smart Homes | p. 26 |
Robust Face Tracking with Suppressed False Positives in Smart Home Environment | p. 34 |
Adaptive Solutions for Access Control within Pervasive Healthcare Systems | p. 42 |
Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision/Hearing/Cognitive/Communication Impairments | |
Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspective | p. 54 |
Design of a Smart Continence Management System Based on Initial User Requirement Assessment | p. 62 |
Social Rhythms and Nocturnal Routines in Community Dwelling Older Adults | p. 73 |
Home Health Monitoring and Intervention | |
Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home | p. 81 |
Video Monitoring of Vulnerable People in Home Environment | p. 90 |
An Efficient Method for Activity Recognition of the Elderly Using Tilt Signals of Tri-axial Acceleration Sensor | p. 99 |
Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence | |
A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Living | p. 105 |
Abstracting Nutritional Information of Food Service Facilities Using the Pervasive Healthy Diet Adviser | p. 113 |
Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interface | p. 123 |
Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments | |
Assessment of the Impact of Sensor Failure in the Recognition of Activities of Daily Living | p. 136 |
Keeping Elderly People at Home: A Multi-agent Classification of Monitoring Data | p. 145 |
HESA: A Human-Centric Evolvable Situation-Awareness Model in Smart Homes | p. 153 |
Real World Deployments and Experiences in Smart Homes, Hospitals, and Living Communities | |
Sharing of Real-Life Experimental Data in Smart Home and Data Analysis Tool Development | p. 161 |
Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Place | p. 169 |
Observing Outdoor Activity Using Global Positioning System-Enabled Cell Phones | p. 177 |
Social/Privacy/Security Issues | |
MISS: Medicine Information Support System in the Smart Home Environment | p. 185 |
Challenges of Designing Privacy Enhanced Context-Aware Middleware for Assisted Healthcare | p. 200 |
Safety-Ensuring Systematic Design for Service Robots | p. 208 |
Author Index | p. 219 |
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