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

Annotation 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 Front Matter....Pages - Computer-Based Assessment of Bradykinesia, Akinesia and Rigidity in Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 1-8 An Assistive Computerized System for Children with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities....Pages 9-16 Design Challenges for Mobile Assistive Technologies Applied to People with Cognitive Impairments....Pages 17-24 Mapping User Needs to Smartphone Services for Persons with Chronic Disease....Pages 25-31 Trial Results of a Novel Cardiac Rhythm Management System Using Smart Phones and Wireless ECG Sensors....Pages 32-39 Participatory Medicine: Leveraging Social Networks in Telehealth Solutions....Pages 40-47 A Case Study of an Ambient Living and Wellness Management Health Care Model in Australia....Pages 48-56 Market Potential for Ambient Assisted Living Technology: The Case of Canada....Pages 57-65 An Ontology-Based Actuator Discovery and Invocation Framework in Home Care Systems....Pages 66-73 Towards an Affective Aware Home....Pages 74-81 Global System for Localization and Guidance of Dependant People: Indoor and Outdoor Technologies Integration....Pages 82-89 An Architecture to Combine Context Awareness and Body Sensor Networks for Health Care Applications....Pages 90-97 Multimodal Laser-Vision Approach for the Deictic Control of a Smart Wheelchair....Pages 98-107 Pervasive Informatics and Persistent Actimetric Information in Health Smart Homes....Pages 108-116 Interactive Calendar to Help Maintain Social Interactions for Elderly People and People with Mild Cognitive Impairments....Pages 117-124 Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Human Intentions in a Smart Home Environment....Pages 125-132 Multi-purpose Ambient Display System Supporting Various Media Objects....Pages 133-140 Towards a Task Supporting System with CBR Approach in Smart Home....Pages 141-149 Appliance Recognition from Electric Current Signals for Information-Energy Integrated Network in Home Environments....Pages 150-157 WIVA: WSN Monitoring Framework Based on 3D Visualization and Augmented Reality in Mobile Devices....Pages 158-165 Environment Objects: A Novel Approach for Modeling Privacy in Pervasive Computing....Pages 166-173 Privacy-Aware Web Services in Smart Homes....Pages 174-181 Concept and Design of a Video Monitoring System for Activity Recognition and Fall Detection....Pages 182-189 Design and Trial Deployment of a Practical Sleep Activity Pattern Monitoring System....Pages 190-200 A Rotating Roll-Call-Based Adaptive Failure Detection and Recovery Protocol for Smart Home Environments....Pages 201-208 Fall Detection and Alert for Ageing-at-Home of Elderly....Pages 209-216 ADL Monitoring System Using FSR Arrays and Optional 3-Axis Accelerometer....Pages 217-224 Efficient Incremental Plan Recognition Method for Cognitive Assistance....Pages 225-228 Home Based Self-management of Chronic Diseases....Pages 229-232 SOPRANO – An Ambient Assisted Living System for Supporting Older People at Home....Pages 233-236 An Agent-Based Healthcare Support System in Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 237-240 A Ubiquitous Computing Environment to Support the Mobility of Users with Special Needs....Pages 241-244 Evaluation Metrics for eHealth Services and Applications within Smart Houses Context....Pages 245-248 Design and Implementation of Mobile Self-care System Using Voice and Facial Images....Pages 249-252 Towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Tele-Rehabilitation....Pages 253-256 IP Multimedia Subsystem Technology for Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 257-260 Enhancing OSGi: Semantic Add-ins for Service Oriented Collaborative Environments....Pages 261-264 Using Web Services for Medication Management in a Smart Home Environment....Pages 265-268 Service Reconfiguration in the DANAH Assistive System....Pages 269-273 Model-Driven Development Approach for Providing Smart Home Services....Pages 274-277 LET_ME: An Electronic Device to Help Elderly People with Their Home Medications....Pages 278-281 Preferences of Healthcare Staff in the Way of Interacting with Robots Depending on Their Prior Knowledge of ICTs: Findings from Iward Project....Pages 282-285 Research and Development Pathway of Rehabilitative and Assistive Robots at National Rehabilitation Center in Korea....Pages 286-289 A Predictive Analysis of the Night-Day Activities Level of Older Patient in a Health Smart Home....Pages 290-293 Spatiotemporal Data Acquisition Modalities for Smart Home Inhabitant Movement Behavioural Analysis....Pages 294-298 Towards Improved Information Quality: The Integration of Body Area Network Data within Electronic Health Records....Pages 299-302 Distributed Dynamic Self-adaptation of Data Management in Telemedicine Applications....Pages 303-306 Back Matter....Pages -