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9783540699149

Smart Homes and Health Telematics: 6th International Conference, Icost 2008 Ames, Ia, USA, June 28th July 2, 2008, Proceedings

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-09-03
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telematics, ICOST 2008, held in Ames, IA, USA, in June/July 2008.The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on assistive technology to improve quality of life for older adults and their caregivers; context awareness/autonomous computing; devices, systems and algorithms for vision/hearing/cognitive/communication impairments; home health monitoring and intervention; human-machine interface and ambient intelligence; modeling of physical and conceptual information in intelligent environments; real world deployments and experiences in smart homes, hospitals, and living communities; and social/privacy/security issues.

Table of Contents

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 Environmentp. 1
HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementiap. 9
Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prostheticsp. 18
Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing
An Integrated Approach to Context Specification and Recognition in Smart Homesp. 26
Robust Face Tracking with Suppressed False Positives in Smart Home Environmentp. 34
Adaptive Solutions for Access Control within Pervasive Healthcare Systemsp. 42
Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision/Hearing/Cognitive/Communication Impairments
Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspectivep. 54
Design of a Smart Continence Management System Based on Initial User Requirement Assessmentp. 62
Social Rhythms and Nocturnal Routines in Community Dwelling Older Adultsp. 73
Home Health Monitoring and Intervention
Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Homep. 81
Video Monitoring of Vulnerable People in Home Environmentp. 90
An Efficient Method for Activity Recognition of the Elderly Using Tilt Signals of Tri-axial Acceleration Sensorp. 99
Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence
A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Livingp. 105
Abstracting Nutritional Information of Food Service Facilities Using the Pervasive Healthy Diet Adviserp. 113
Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interfacep. 123
Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments
Assessment of the Impact of Sensor Failure in the Recognition of Activities of Daily Livingp. 136
Keeping Elderly People at Home: A Multi-agent Classification of Monitoring Datap. 145
HESA: A Human-Centric Evolvable Situation-Awareness Model in Smart Homesp. 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 Developmentp. 161
Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Placep. 169
Observing Outdoor Activity Using Global Positioning System-Enabled Cell Phonesp. 177
Social/Privacy/Security Issues
MISS: Medicine Information Support System in the Smart Home Environmentp. 185
Challenges of Designing Privacy Enhanced Context-Aware Middleware for Assisted Healthcarep. 200
Safety-Ensuring Systematic Design for Service Robotsp. 208
Author Indexp. 219
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