Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities: 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Adaptative Applications for Heterogeneous Intelligent Environments....Pages 1-8
An Automated Prompting System for Smart Environments....Pages 9-16
Domain Selection and Adaptation in Smart Homes....Pages 17-24
Daily Human Activity Recognition Using Depth Silhouettes and $\\mathcal{R}$ Transformation for Smart Home....Pages 25-32
Activity Recognition in Smart Environments: An Information Retrieval Problem....Pages 33-40
Annotating Sensor Data to Identify Activities of Daily Living....Pages 41-48
Using Association Rule Mining to Discover Temporal Relations of Daily Activities....Pages 49-56
Using Graphs to Improve Activity Prediction in Smart Environments Based on Motion Sensor Data....Pages 57-64
An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia Who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances....Pages 65-71
Human-Centric Situational Awareness in the Bedroom....Pages 72-79
A Subarea Mapping Approach for Indoor Localization....Pages 80-87
Joint Active Queue Management and Congestion Control Protocol for Healthcare Applications in Wireless Body Sensor Networks....Pages 88-95
CodaQ: A Context-Aware and Adaptive QoS-Aware Middleware for Activity Monitoring....Pages 96-103
Physical Activity Monitoring with Mobile Phones....Pages 104-111
Guidelines for Increasing Prompt Efficiency in Smart Homes According to the Resident’s Profile and Task Characteristics....Pages 112-120
Fall Detection from Depth Map Video Sequences....Pages 121-128
Smart Silver Towns: Prospects and Challenges....Pages 129-136
Interdisciplinary Design of an Electronic Organizer for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 137-144
From Individual Communication to Social Networks: Evolution of a Technical Platform for the Elderly....Pages 145-152
Evaluation of Video Reminding Technology for Persons with Dementia....Pages 153-160
The “Acceptance” of Ambient Assisted Living: Developing an Alternate Methodology to This Limited Research Lens....Pages 161-167
An OWL-DL Ontology for the HL7 Reference Information Model....Pages 168-175
Development of the “Care Delivery Frame” for Senior Users....Pages 176-183
Utilizing Wearable Sensors to Investigate the Impact of Everyday Activities on Heart Rate....Pages 184-191
The Smart Home Landscape: A Qualitative Meta-analysis....Pages 192-199
Using Code of Colors through ICT and Home Automation Technologies in the Housing Environment Context for Persons with Loss of Autonomy....Pages 200-204
The COSE Ontology: Bringing the Semantic Web to Smart Environments....Pages 205-209
Portable Ambulatory Urodynamics Monitoring System for Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms....Pages 210-214
Real-Time Interactive Medical Consultation Using a Pervasive Healthcare Architecture....Pages 215-219
Hardware Design in Smart Home Applications: Rapid Prototyping and Embedded Systems....Pages 220-224
Audiovisual Assistance for the Elderly - An Overview of the FEARLESS Project....Pages 225-229
Wrenching: Transient Migration from Commonality to Variability in Product Line Engineering of Smart Homes....Pages 230-235
An Intelligent Agent for Determining Home Occupancy Using Power Monitors and Light Sensors....Pages 236-240
Robotic Computer as a Mediator in Smart Environments....Pages 241-245
Design Considerations for Assistive Platforms in Ambient Computing for Disabled People - Wheelchair in an Ambient Environment....Pages 246-250
Establishing a Common Service Platform for Smart Living: Challenges and a Research Agenda....Pages 251-255
Handling User Interface Plasticity in Assistive Environment: UbiSMART Framework....Pages 256-260
Patterns Architecture for Fusion Engines....Pages 261-265
BlindShopping: Enabling Accessible Shopping for Visually Impaired People through Mobile Technologies....Pages 266-270
Maisons Vill’Âge ® : Smart Use of Home Automation for Healthy Aging....Pages 271-275
Pervasive Intelligence System to Enable Safety and Assistance in Kitchen for Home-Alone Elderly....Pages 276-280
Heterogeneous Multi-sensor Fusion Based on an Evidential Network for Fall Detection....Pages 281-285
Cognitive Remediation for Inpatients with Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder Using “Smart” Technology in a Simulated Apartment: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study....Pages 286-289
Smart Diabetes Management System Based on Service Oriented Architecture....Pages 290-295
An Ambient Approach to Emergency Detection Based on Location Tracking....Pages 296-302
A Study of Long Term Tendencies in Residents’ Activities of Daily Living at a Group Home for People with Dementia Using RFID Slippers....Pages 303-307
Qualitative Spatial Activity Recognition Using a Complete Platform Based on Passive RFID Tags: Experimentations and Results....Pages 308-312
Multiple People Activity Recognition Using MHT over DBN....Pages 313-318
Approaches to Smart Home with a Focus on Workspace in Single Household....Pages 319-323
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