Ambient Assisted Living and Home Care: 4th International Workshop, IWAAL 2012, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, December 3-5, 2012, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7657)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2012, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in December 2012. The 58 research papers were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as intelligent healthcare and home-care environments, AAL environments, sensing and monitoring, human-computer interaction at assistive environments, semantic modeling for realizing AAL, and application domains. Front Matter....Pages - Adaptive Collaborative Environment for Vascular Problems Telediagnosis....Pages 1-8 Towards Secure e-Health Interoperable Personal Networks....Pages 9-16 A New Approach to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases Based on SCORE Charts through Reasoning Methods and Mobile Monitoring....Pages 17-24 PeerAssist: A P2P Platform Supporting Virtual Communities to Assist Independent Living of Senior Citizens....Pages 25-32 Validation Tool for Smart Screening of Language Disorders in Pediatrics Care....Pages 33-40 A Novel Visualizer of Medical Images by Integrating an Extensible Plugin Framework....Pages 41-48 Mobile System for Medical Control of Chronic Diseases through Intelligent Devices....Pages 49-57 A Multi-sensor Mobile System Based on Agents for People Monitoring....Pages 58-65 A Novel Software Development Kit (SDK) to Foster Adoption of Health Informatics Standards in Personal Health Device (PHD) Communications....Pages 66-73 Identification of Sounds and Sensing Technology for Home-Care Applications....Pages 74-81 Modeling a Risk Detection System for Elderly’s Home-Care with a Network of Timed Automata....Pages 82-89 User Behavior Shift Detection in Intelligent Environments....Pages 90-97 A Hybrid HMM/ANN Model for Activity Recognition in the Home Using Binary Sensors....Pages 98-105 3D Object Reconstruction Using Convex Hull Improved by a Peeling Process....Pages 106-110 emHEALTH: Online-Platform with Telecare Services to Promote Healthy Lifestyle for People with Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 111-114 Pathological Vocal Folds Quantitative Parameters Exchange Using HL7 Standard....Pages 115-118 MonAMI: Mainstream on Ambient Intelligence. Scaled Field Trial Experience in a Spanish Geriatric Residence....Pages 119-126 MonAMI: Economic Impact of Mainstream AAL Open Platform in Home Care....Pages 127-134 Authentication and Authorization in Ambient Assisting Living Applications: An Approach for UniversAAL....Pages 135-142 Could Virtual Reality Be an Effective Tool to Combat Obesity and Sedentariness in Children? Results from Two Research Studies....Pages 143-150 Metaphorical Design of Feedback Interfaces in Activity-Aware Ambient Assisted-Living Applications....Pages 151-158 Common-Sense Knowledge for a Computer Vision System for Human Action Recognition....Pages 159-166 Residential Care Home Awareness....Pages 167-170 An Ubiquitous Game for Providing Emotional Support to Hospitalized Children....Pages 171-174 A Wearable Electrocardiogram Recorder (ECG) Using ISO / IEEE 11073 Interoperability Standard....Pages 175-182 Ubiquitous Tele-monitoring Kit (UTK): Measuring Physiological Signals Anywhere at Anytime....Pages 183-191 Modular Hardware Design and Realization for Vital Signs Monitoring....Pages 192-199 An Study on Re-identification in RGB-D Imagery....Pages 200-207 Offline and Online Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices Using Accelerometer Data....Pages 208-215 Human Activity Recognition on Smartphones Using a Multiclass Hardware-Friendly Support Vector Machine....Pages 216-223 Gait Quality Monitoring Using an Arbitrarily Oriented Smartphone....Pages 224-231 Ambient Sensor System for Freezing of Gait Detection by Spatial Context Analysis....Pages 232-239 Multiple Structured Light-Based Depth Sensors for Human Motion Analysis: A Review....Pages 240-247 YOAPY: A Data Aggregation and Pre-processing Module for Enabling Continuous Healthcare Monitoring in the Internet of Things....Pages 248-255 Multiprotocol Android Application for Smart Control and Monitoring in Buildings....Pages 256-260 I Feel You: Towards Affect-Sensitive Domotic Spoken Conversational Agents....Pages 261-269 Evaluation of Emerging Audio Description Systems for Broadcast TV....Pages 270-277 Implementing Shared Displays: A Tool for Smooth Integration of Large-Screen TVs and Mobile Devices....Pages 278-286 User Experience of Elders and Relatives in a Collaborative Cognitive Stimulation Tool....Pages 287-294 Discovering the Social Interaction Patterns of Younger and Older Facebook Users....Pages 295-303 Adapting Social and Intelligent Environments to Support People with Special Needs....Pages 304-311 The Impact of Introducing Therapeutic Robots in Hospital’s Organization....Pages 312-315 Evaluation of an Inclusive Smart Home Technology System....Pages 316-319 Towards Ubiquitous User Modeling Interoperability for Dealing with Overweight and Obesity....Pages 320-328 TURAMBAR: An Approach to Deal with Uncertainty in Semantic Environments....Pages 329-337 Intervention Tailoring in AAL Systems for Elders with Dementia Using Ontologies....Pages 338-345 Linguistic Description of Human Activity Based on Mobile Phone’s Accelerometers....Pages 346-353 Semantic Based Self-configuration Approach for Social Robots in Health Care Environments....Pages 354-361 Context-Aware Generation and Adaptive Execution of Daily Living Care Pathways....Pages 362-370 EmotionContext: User Emotion Dataset Using Smartphones....Pages 371-374 A Model to Develop Frailty Diagnosis Tools through Mobile Devices and a Service-Oriented Approach....Pages 375-382 Personal Ambient Intelligent Reminder for People with Cognitive Disabilities....Pages 383-390 JeWheels: Kinect Based Serious Game Aimed at Wheelchair Users....Pages 391-398 AngryEmail? Emotion-Based E-mail Tool Adaptation....Pages 399-406 New Approaches for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Based on Automatic Spontaneous Speech Analysis and Emotional Temperature....Pages 407-414 Detection of Motion Disorders of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders....Pages 415-422 eFisioTrack: A Telerehabilitation Platform for Monitoring Prescribed Therapeutic Exercises in Orthopaedic Injuries....Pages 423-430 Technological Solution for Improving Time Management Skills Using an Android Application for Children with ADD....Pages 431-434 Back Matter....Pages -