Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation - BMI: Well-Being - Volume 9 Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

The notion of well-being is one which is crucial to many aspects of our daily lives. In addition to providing one of the cornerstones to a healthy lifestyle, the concept of well- being extends to the selection of the type of environment we live in, our interaction with other people and the things we do to realize our plans for the future. Well-being is so intrinsic to our daily lives that it plays a fundamental role at all times and in all places, so it is important that it is taken into account when designing the ubiquitous computing technologies which pervade our lives nowadays. This book contains the papers presented at the 2009 Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI) workshop, third in the annual series launched in 2007, and co-located with the German conference on Artificial Intelligence. The focus of the 2009 workshop on the topic of well-being reflects the significant interest in this area of research and the book offers state-of-the-art contributions in the application area of well-being from diverse disciplines such as engineering and philosophy. This overview of a wide range of research projects will be of interest to researchers and developers whose work necessitates a consideration of well-being, either as part of the task of implementing current applications or of designing the systems of the future.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences "The notion of well-being is one which is crucial to many aspects of our daily lives. In addition to providing one of the cornerstones to a healthy lifestyle, the concept of well-being extends to the selection of the type of environment we live in, our interaction with other people and the things we do to realize our plans for the future. Well-being is so intrinsic to our daily lives that it plays a fundamental role at all times and in all places, so it is important that it is taken into account when designing the ubiquitous computing technologies which pervade our lives nowadays. This book contains the papers presented at the 2009 Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI) workshop, third in the annual series launched in 2007, and co-located with the German conference on Artificial Intelligence. The focus of the 2009 workshop on the topic of well-being reflects the significant interest in this area of research and the book offers state-of-the-art contributions in the application area of well-being from diverse disciplines such as engineering and philosophy. This overview of a wide range of research projects will be of interest to researchers and developers whose work necessitates a consideration of well-being, either as part of the task of implementing current applications or of designing the systems of the future"--Provided by publisher Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Part I. Foundations of Well-Being......Page 10 Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation......Page 12 Information Communication Technology as a Means of Enhancing the Well-Being of Older People......Page 20 Well-Being in Physical Information Spacetime: Philosophical Observations on the Use of Pervasive Computing for Supporting Good Life......Page 35 Part II. Supporting the Well-Being Through Care Taking in Smart Environments......Page 72 Tracking Systems for Multiple Smart Home Residents......Page 74 KopAL - An Orientation System for Patients with Dementia......Page 92 Cost/Benefit Analysis of an Adherence Support Framework for Chronic Disease Management......Page 114 Part III. Improving the Well-Being Through Life-Style and Entertainment......Page 138 Predicting Daily Physical Activity in a Lifestyle Intervention Program......Page 140 Hey Robot, Get Out of My Way - A Survey on a Spatial and Situational Movement Concept in HRI......Page 156 Towards Adaptive and User-Centric Smart Home Applications......Page 175 Subject Index......Page 192 Author Index......Page 194 pt. 1. Foundations of well-being pt. 2. Supporting the well-being through care taking in smart environments pt. 3. Improving the well-being through life-stle and entertainment.