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Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health

First International Conference, ICT4AgeingWell 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20-22, 2015. Revised Selected Papers

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Invited Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Community Assessment of Risk and Treatment Strategies (CARTS): An Integrated Care Pathway to Manage Frailty and Functional Decline in Community Dwelling Older Adults

      • Rónán O’ Caoimh, Elizabeth Weathers, Ruth Hally, Ronan O’ Sullivan, Carol FitzGerald, Nicola Cornally et al.
      Pages 3-18
    3. Advancing Ambient Assisted Living with Caution

      • Christian Huyck, Juan Augusto, Xiaohong Gao, Juan A. Botía
      Pages 19-32
  3. Ambient Assisted Living

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Ambient Technology to Support Elderly People in Outdoor Risk Situations

      • Rami Yared, Hady Khaddaj Mallat, Bessam Abdulrazak
      Pages 35-56
  4. Telemedicine and e-Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Increased Engagement in Telegeriatrics Reduces Unnecessary Hospital Admissions of Nursing Home Residents

      • H.J. Toh, J. Chia, E. Koh, K. Lam, G.C. Magpantay, C.M. De Leon et al.
      Pages 81-90
    3. Virtual Geriatric Care: User Perception of Telegeriatrics in Nursing Homes of Singapore

      • H. J. Toh, J. Chia, E. Koh, K. Lam, G. C. Magpantay, C. M. De Leon et al.
      Pages 91-105
    4. Modeling and Predicting the Human Heart Rate During Running Exercise

      • Matthias Füller, Ashok Meenakshi Sundaram, Melanie Ludwig, Alexander Asteroth, Erwin Prassler
      Pages 106-125
    5. Handling of Emergency Situations with Elderly Patients using Autonomous Mobile Robot and Smart Tablets

      • Syed Atif Mehdi, Shah Rukh Humayoun, Artem Avtandilov, Karsten Berns
      Pages 126-142
  5. Monitoring, Accessibility and User Interfaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Home-Based Activity Monitoring of Elderly People Through a Hierarchical Approach

      • Xavier Rafael-Palou, Carme Zambrana, Eloisa Vargiu, Felip Miralles
      Pages 145-161
  6. HCI for Ageing Populations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Mapping Memories for People with Dementia

      • Alina Huldtgren, Anja Vormann, Christian Geiger
      Pages 165-184
    3. Older Adults Digital Gameplay: A Follow-up Study of Social Benefits

      • Simone Hausknecht, Robyn Schell, Fan Zhang, David Kaufman
      Pages 198-216
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 239-239

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015.
The 11 full papers and two invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers cover five main topic areas, covering different aspects, including Ambient Assisted Living, Telemedicine and E-Health, Monitoring, Accessibility and User Interfaces, Robotics and Devices for Independent Living and HCI for Ageing Populations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Markus Helfert

  • Human-Computer Interaction, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  • RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Martina Ziefle

  • Inst Sup Téc, Inst de Telecom, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Fred

  • Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    John O'Donoghue

  • Sys Tech & Image Exploitation, Fraunhofer Institute of Optonics, Lemgo, Germany

    Carsten Röcker

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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