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Handbook of Smart Homes, Health Care and Well-Being

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Joost van Hoof

    1. Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  2. George Demiris

    1. School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  3. Eveline J.M. Wouters

    1. Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  • Multidisciplinary character of subject and authors (engineering and health care) unseen in related books/publications
  • First handbook of its kind related to care-related needs following from global demographic changes (ageing, chronic disease): other publications focus on technology only
  • Includes case reports of actual projects (success factors and learning points)

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Table of contents (50 entries)

  1. Lab of Things: Simplifying and Scaling Deployments of Experimental Technology in Homes

    • A. J. Bernheim Brush, Ratul Mahajan, Arjmand Samuel

  2. Mindset Changes Among Health-Care Professionals and the Use of Technology

    • Annemarie van Hout

  3. Monitoring Everyday Abilities and Cognitive Health Using Pervasive Technologies: Current State and Prospect

    • Prafulla N. Dawadi, Diane J. Cook

  4. Networked Seniors

    • Dov Sugarman

  5. Persuasive Technology

    • Janienke Sturm

  6. Political and Regulatory Environment for Smart Home Technology from the Perspective of Singapore

    • Bert Vrijhoef

  7. Professional Values: The Use of Technology and the New Generation of Clinicians

    • Eveline J. M. Wouters, Thea C. M. Weijers, Marianne E. Nieboer

  8. Promotion of Rehabilitation Practice for Elderly People Using Robotic Pets

    • M. Naganuma, E. Ohkubo, N. Kato

  9. Property Damage, Purchasing Orders, and Power Outages, Oh My!: Suggestions for Planning Your Next In-The-Wild Deployment

    • William R. Hazlewood, Kay Connelly, Kelly E. Caine, Zachary Schall-Zimmerman, Greg Blanton

  10. Smart Home Solutions: Privacy Issues

    • Marianthi Theoharidou, Nikolaos Tsalis, Dimitris Gritzalis

  11. Smart Home: A Learning and Development Environment

    • Kari Vehmaskoski, Toni Pekkola

  12. Smart Homes, RFID and Wandering

    • William D. Kearns, James L. Fozard

  13. Smart Living in Dementia Care

    • N. Nijhof, J. van Hoof, M. M. Blom, J. E. W. C. van Gemert-Pijnen

  14. Standards for Smart Living: A Historical Overview

    • Masi M. Mohammadi, Coosje J. H. W. Hammink

  15. Successful Implementation of Technological Innovations in Health Care Organizations

    • Eveline J. M. Wouters, Thea C. M. Weijers, Tracy L. Finch

  16. Technological Solutions for Smart Homes

    • Jeedella S. Y. Jeedella, Mahmoud Al-Qutayri

  17. Technology Acceptance by Patients: Empowerment and Stigma

    • Martina Ziefle, Anne Kathrin Schaar

  18. The Elderly Resources Centre

    • P. C. Sze, K. Y. Au-Yeung

  19. The Future of Living

    • E. Slaats

  20. The Role of Culture in Adopting Smart Home Technologies

    • Jane Chung
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About this book

Smart homes, home automation and ambient-assisted living are terms used to describe technological systems that enrich our living environment and provide means to support care, facilitate well-being and improve comfort. This handbook provides an overview of the domain from the perspective of health care and technology.  In Part 1, we set out to describe the demographic changes in society, including ageing, and diseases and impairments which lead to the needs for technological solutions. In Part 2, we describe the technological solutions, ranging from sensor-based networks, components, to communication protocols that are used in the design of smart homes. We also deal will biomedical features which can be measured, and services that can be delivered to end-users as well as the use of social robots.  In Part 3, we present best practices in the field. These best practices mainly focus on existing projects in Europe, the USA and Asia, in which people receive help through dedicated technological solutions being part of the continuum of the home environment and care. In Part 4, we describe the preconditions to successful ambient-assisted living, including policies, the roles of professionals and organisational needs, design aspects and human factors, the needs of users, laws, business cases, and education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Joost van Hoof, Eveline J.M. Wouters

  • School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    George Demiris

About the editors

Joost van Hoof serves as the head of the Fontys Centre for Health Care & Technology, which is a cooperation between 5 Institutes of Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven and Venlo, The Netherlands. Together with Dr.EvelineWouters, he was a co-editor of a Dutch handbook on smart living and health. Dr. van Hoof has an engineering background in building physics and services. Dr. van Hoof also works with ISSO, the Dutch Building Services Research Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He serves as board member of TVVL, the Dutch Association for Building Services Engineers TVVL (Dutch Technical Association for Building Services), and the Herman Bouma Fund for Gerontechnology Foundation. For his work, Dr van Hoof won various (inter)national awards, including the REHVA Young Scientist Award 2011 by the Federation of European Heating and Air-Conditioning Associations, and the 2010 BJ Max Prize. He is a board member of various ISI journals on building, technology and health care.

George Demiris is the Alumni Endowed Professor in Nursing at the School of Nursing and Biomedical and Health Informatics, at the School of Medicine, University of Washington. He is the Graduate Program Director of Biomedical and Health Informaticsin the School of Medicine and the Director of the Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies Program at the School of Nursing. His research interests include the design and evaluation of home based technologies for older adults and patients with chronic conditions and disabilities, smart homes and ambient assisted living applications and the use of telehealth in home care and hospice.

Eveline Wouters, PhD, MD, MSc, is medical doctor and professor of Health Innovations and Technology with the Institute of Allied Health Professions of Fontys University of Applied Sciences. The research focus is on technology development, acceptance and implementation of technology in health care, from the point of view of patients, family and health care professionals. In this, she works together with technological faculties. Together with Dr. Joost van Hoof, she was a co-editor of a Dutch handbook on smart living and health. Dr. Wouters has written several other textbooks, book chapters and many peer-reviewed articles on a diversity of health related subjects.



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