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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

Editors:

  1. Mounir Mokhtari

    1. Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, Handicom Lab., Evry Cedex, France

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  2. Ismail Khalil

    1. Institute of Telecooperation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

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  3. Jérémy Bauchet

    1. Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, Handicom Lab., Evry Cedex, France

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  4. Daqing Zhang

    1. Telecommunication Network and Services Department, HANDICOM Lab., Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, Evry Cedex, France

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  5. Chris Nugent

    1. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5597)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ICOST: International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics

Conference proceedings info: ICOST 2009.

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Cognitive Assistance and Chronic Diseases Management

    1. Computer-Based Assessment of Bradykinesia, Akinesia and Rigidity in Parkinson’s Disease

      • Laura Cunningham, Chris Nugent, George Moore, Dewar Finlay, David Craig
      Pages 1-8

    2. An Assistive Computerized System for Children with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities

      • Jihad M. ALJa’am, Samir ElSeoud, Arthur Edwards, M. Garcia Ruiz, Ali Jaoua
      Pages 9-16

    3. Design Challenges for Mobile Assistive Technologies Applied to People with Cognitive Impairments

      • Andrée-Anne Boisvert, Luc Paquette, Hélène Pigot, Sylvain Giroux
      Pages 17-24

    4. Mapping User Needs to Smartphone Services for Persons with Chronic Disease

      • Nicola Armstrong, Chris Nugent, George Moore, Dewar Finlay
      Pages 25-31

  3. Ambient Living Systems

    1. Participatory Medicine: Leveraging Social Networks in Telehealth Solutions

      • Mark Weitzel, Andy Smith, Duckki Lee, Scott de Deugd, Sumi Helal
      Pages 40-47

    2. A Case Study of an Ambient Living and Wellness Management Health Care Model in Australia

      • Jeffrey Soar, Anne Livingstone, Szu-Yao Wang
      Pages 48-56

    3. Market Potential for Ambient Assisted Living Technology: The Case of Canada

      • Robert Savage, Yongjie Yon, Michael Campo, Ashleigh Wilson, Ravin Kahlon, Andrew Sixsmith
      Pages 57-65

  4. Service Continuity and Context Awareness

    2. Towards an Affective Aware Home

      • Benţa Kuderna-Iulian, Cremene Marcel, Todica Valeriu
      Pages 74-81

    3. Global System for Localization and Guidance of Dependant People: Indoor and Outdoor Technologies Integration

      • César Benavente-Peces, María Puente, Alfonso Domínguez-García, Manuel Lugilde-Rodríguez, Enrique de la Serna, David Miguel et al.
      Pages 82-89

    4. An Architecture to Combine Context Awareness and Body Sensor Networks for Health Care Applications

      • Alessia Salmeri, Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Luca Lamorte, Massimo Valla, Roberta Giannantonio, Marco Sgroi
      Pages 90-97

  5. User Modeling and Human-Machine Interaction

    1. Multimodal Laser-Vision Approach for the Deictic Control of a Smart Wheelchair

      • Frédéric Leishman, Odile Horn, Guy Bourhis
      Pages 98-107

    2. Pervasive Informatics and Persistent Actimetric Information in Health Smart Homes

      • Yannick Fouquet, Nicolas Vuillerme, Jacques Demongeot
      Pages 108-116

    4. Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Human Intentions in a Smart Home Environment

      • Katsunori Oyama, Jeyoun Dong, Kai-Shin Lu, Hsin-yi Jiang, Hua Ming, Carl K. Chang
      Pages 125-132

  6. Ambient Intelligence Modeling and Privacy Issues

    1. Towards a Task Supporting System with CBR Approach in Smart Home

      • Hongbo Ni, Xingshe Zhou, Daqing Zhang, Kejian Miao, Yaqi Fu
      Pages 141-149

    2. Appliance Recognition from Electric Current Signals for Information-Energy Integrated Network in Home Environments

      • Takekazu Kato, Hyun Sang Cho, Dongwook Lee, Tetsuo Toyomura, Tatsuya Yamazaki
      Pages 150-157
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telematics, ICOST 2009, held in Tours, France, in July 2009. The 27 revised full papers and 20 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognitive assistance and chronic diseases management; ambient living systems; service continuity and context awareness; user modeling and human-machine interaction; ambient intelligence modeling and privacy issues, human behavior and activities monitoring.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, Handicom Lab., Evry Cedex, France

    Mounir Mokhtari, Jérémy Bauchet

  • Institute of Telecooperation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Ismail Khalil

  • Telecommunication Network and Services Department, HANDICOM Lab., Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, Evry Cedex, France

    Daqing Zhang

  • School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, UK

    Chris Nugent

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