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.
Author(s): Kung-Ta Huang, Po-Yen Lin, Chih-Yen Chiang, Jui-Sheng Chang, Chih-Ning Huang (auth.), Sumi Helal, Simanta Mitra, Johnny Wong, Carl K. Chang, Mounir Mokhtari (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5120 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 220
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computers and Societ
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An Intelligent RFID System for Improving Elderly Daily Life Independent in Indoor Environment....Pages 1-8
HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementia....Pages 9-17
Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prosthetics....Pages 18-25
An Integrated Approach to Context Specification and Recognition in Smart Homes....Pages 26-33
Robust Face Tracking with Suppressed False Positives in Smart Home Environment....Pages 34-41
Adaptive Solutions for Access Control within Pervasive Healthcare Systems....Pages 42-53
Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspective....Pages 54-61
Design of a Smart Continence Management System Based on Initial User Requirement Assessment....Pages 62-72
Social Rhythms and Nocturnal Routines in Community Dwelling Older Adults....Pages 73-80
Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home....Pages 81-89
Video Monitoring of Vulnerable People in Home Environment....Pages 90-98
An Efficient Method for Activity Recognition of the Elderly Using Tilt Signals of Tri-axial Acceleration Sensor....Pages 99-104
A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 105-112
Abstracting Nutritional Information of Food Service Facilities Using the Pervasive Healthy Diet Adviser....Pages 113-122
Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interface....Pages 123-135
Assessment of the Impact of Sensor Failure in the Recognition of Activities of Daily Living....Pages 136-144
Keeping Elderly People at Home: A Multi-agent Classification of Monitoring Data....Pages 145-152
HESA: A Human-Centric Evolvable Situation-Awareness Model in Smart Homes....Pages 153-160
Sharing of Real-Life Experimental Data in Smart Home and Data Analysis Tool Development....Pages 161-168
Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Place....Pages 169-176
Observing Outdoor Activity Using Global Positioning System-Enabled Cell Phones....Pages 177-184
MISS: Medicine Information Support System in the Smart Home Environment....Pages 185-199
Challenges of Designing Privacy Enhanced Context-Aware Middleware for Assisted Healthcare....Pages 200-207
Safety-Ensuring Systematic Design for Service Robots....Pages 208-217
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