Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City: 7th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2009, Tours, France, July 1-3, 2009. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Computer-Based Assessment of Bradykinesia, Akinesia and Rigidity in Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 1-8
An Assistive Computerized System for Children with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities....Pages 9-16
Design Challenges for Mobile Assistive Technologies Applied to People with Cognitive Impairments....Pages 17-24
Mapping User Needs to Smartphone Services for Persons with Chronic Disease....Pages 25-31
Trial Results of a Novel Cardiac Rhythm Management System Using Smart Phones and Wireless ECG Sensors....Pages 32-39
Participatory Medicine: Leveraging Social Networks in Telehealth Solutions....Pages 40-47
A Case Study of an Ambient Living and Wellness Management Health Care Model in Australia....Pages 48-56
Market Potential for Ambient Assisted Living Technology: The Case of Canada....Pages 57-65
An Ontology-Based Actuator Discovery and Invocation Framework in Home Care Systems....Pages 66-73
Towards an Affective Aware Home....Pages 74-81
Global System for Localization and Guidance of Dependant People: Indoor and Outdoor Technologies Integration....Pages 82-89
An Architecture to Combine Context Awareness and Body Sensor Networks for Health Care Applications....Pages 90-97
Multimodal Laser-Vision Approach for the Deictic Control of a Smart Wheelchair....Pages 98-107
Pervasive Informatics and Persistent Actimetric Information in Health Smart Homes....Pages 108-116
Interactive Calendar to Help Maintain Social Interactions for Elderly People and People with Mild Cognitive Impairments....Pages 117-124
Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Human Intentions in a Smart Home Environment....Pages 125-132
Multi-purpose Ambient Display System Supporting Various Media Objects....Pages 133-140
Towards a Task Supporting System with CBR Approach in Smart Home....Pages 141-149
Appliance Recognition from Electric Current Signals for Information-Energy Integrated Network in Home Environments....Pages 150-157
WIVA: WSN Monitoring Framework Based on 3D Visualization and Augmented Reality in Mobile Devices....Pages 158-165
Environment Objects: A Novel Approach for Modeling Privacy in Pervasive Computing....Pages 166-173
Privacy-Aware Web Services in Smart Homes....Pages 174-181
Concept and Design of a Video Monitoring System for Activity Recognition and Fall Detection....Pages 182-189
Design and Trial Deployment of a Practical Sleep Activity Pattern Monitoring System....Pages 190-200
A Rotating Roll-Call-Based Adaptive Failure Detection and Recovery Protocol for Smart Home Environments....Pages 201-208
Fall Detection and Alert for Ageing-at-Home of Elderly....Pages 209-216
ADL Monitoring System Using FSR Arrays and Optional 3-Axis Accelerometer....Pages 217-224
Efficient Incremental Plan Recognition Method for Cognitive Assistance....Pages 225-228
Home Based Self-management of Chronic Diseases....Pages 229-232
SOPRANO – An Ambient Assisted Living System for Supporting Older People at Home....Pages 233-236
An Agent-Based Healthcare Support System in Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 237-240
A Ubiquitous Computing Environment to Support the Mobility of Users with Special Needs....Pages 241-244
Evaluation Metrics for eHealth Services and Applications within Smart Houses Context....Pages 245-248
Design and Implementation of Mobile Self-care System Using Voice and Facial Images....Pages 249-252
Towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Tele-Rehabilitation....Pages 253-256
IP Multimedia Subsystem Technology for Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 257-260
Enhancing OSGi: Semantic Add-ins for Service Oriented Collaborative Environments....Pages 261-264
Using Web Services for Medication Management in a Smart Home Environment....Pages 265-268
Service Reconfiguration in the DANAH Assistive System....Pages 269-273
Model-Driven Development Approach for Providing Smart Home Services....Pages 274-277
LET_ME: An Electronic Device to Help Elderly People with Their Home Medications....Pages 278-281
Preferences of Healthcare Staff in the Way of Interacting with Robots Depending on Their Prior Knowledge of ICTs: Findings from Iward Project....Pages 282-285
Research and Development Pathway of Rehabilitative and Assistive Robots at National Rehabilitation Center in Korea....Pages 286-289
A Predictive Analysis of the Night-Day Activities Level of Older Patient in a Health Smart Home....Pages 290-293
Spatiotemporal Data Acquisition Modalities for Smart Home Inhabitant Movement Behavioural Analysis....Pages 294-298
Towards Improved Information Quality: The Integration of Body Area Network Data within Electronic Health Records....Pages 299-302
Distributed Dynamic Self-adaptation of Data Management in Telemedicine Applications....Pages 303-306
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