Impact analysis of solutions for chronic disease prevention and management : 10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, Artiminio, Italy, June 12-15, 2012 : proceedings

Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, held in Artiminio, Tuscany, Italy, June 12- 15, 2012. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 22 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are categorized into a number of sessions that include: User Engagement for Improved Adoption of Assistive Technologies, Self-Management and Tele-Rehabilitation, Advances in Remote Monitoring and Activity Recognition, Sensor Networks for Unobstrusive Monitoring Solutions, and Real World Aware Systems Front Matter....Pages - Challenges of User-Centred Research in the Development of Ambient Assisted Living Systems....Pages 1-8 A Framework for Service Morphing and Heterogeneous Service Discovery in Smart Environments....Pages 9-17 Impact Analysis of Assessment, Consultation and Education Services to Support the Adoption of Smart Home Technologies, Innovations for Chronic Disease Prevention and Solutions for Independent Living....Pages 18-25 Ensuring a Fruitful Future to Innovation and Research: Practical Guidance for the Involvement of Older People in Research....Pages 26-34 Fostering a Continuum of Care....Pages 35-41 User Adoption of Mobile Apps for Chronic Disease Management: A Case Study Based on myFitnessCompanion ® ....Pages 42-49 Effects of In-home Tele-Rehabilitation on Task Self-efficacy in Mobility Impaired Adults....Pages 50-57 The Use of Telerehabilitation to Provide an Exercise Program to Improve Balance in a Post-stroke Population: Preliminary Results....Pages 58-65 Personalized Healthcare Self-management Using Social Persuasion....Pages 66-73 A Clinical Observational Study in the CHIRON Project: Rationale and Expected Results....Pages 74-82 Does Location Help Daily Activity Recognition?....Pages 83-90 A Robot-Environment Cooperation Architecture for the Safety of Elderly People at Home....Pages 91-98 Medical Expert Support Tool (MEST): A Person-Centric Approach for Healthcare Management....Pages 99-106 The Integration of e-health into the Clinical Workflow – Electronic Health Record and Standardization Efforts....Pages 107-115 Innovative Solutions in Health Monitoring at Home: The Real-Time Assessment of Serum Potassium Concentration from ECG....Pages 116-123 Assessment of Custom Fitted Heart Rate Sensing Garments whilst undertaking Everyday Activities....Pages 124-131 Multi-modal Non-intrusive Sleep Pattern Recognition in Elder Assistive Environment....Pages 132-139 A Non Invasive, Wearable Sensor Platform for Multi-parametric Remote Monitoring in CHF Patients....Pages 140-147 A Non-intrusive Monitoring System for Ambient Assisted Living Service Delivery....Pages 148-156 Passive Sleep Actigraphy: Evaluating a Non-contact Method of Monitoring Sleep....Pages 157-164 A Semantic Plug&Play Based Framework for Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 165-172 A Macro and Micro Context Awareness Model for the Provision of Services in Smart Spaces....Pages 173-181 ACARP: Auto Correct Activity Recognition Rules Using Process Analysis Toolkit (PAT)....Pages 182-189 An Extensible Situation-Aware Caring System for Real-World Smart Wards....Pages 190-197 Testing Classifiers for Embedded Health Assessment....Pages 198-205 Stakeholder Involvement Guidelines to Improve the Design Process of Assistive Technology....Pages 206-209 Comparison and Complementarity of Two Approaches to Implement AAL Systems....Pages 210-213 Smart Documents for Home Automation....Pages 214-217 Proposed Generic Method to Assess Efficiency of Smart-Walkers....Pages 218-221 A Usability Protocol for Evaluating Online Social Networks....Pages 222-225 A Smart Home 3D Modeling Approach for Spatiotemporal Analysis....Pages 226-229 Integration of HL7 Compliant Smart Home Healthcare System and HMIS....Pages 230-233 Reaching Analysis of Wheelchair Users Using Motion Planning Methods....Pages 234-237 Improving Telerehabilitation Technology to Challenge Chronic Disease Management....Pages 238-241 Rehabilitation Training and Evaluation with the L-EXOS in Chronic Stroke....Pages 242-245 Human Activity Recognition via the Features of Labeled Depth Body Parts....Pages 246-249 The Role of ICT in a Healthcare Moving from “Clinical-Centric” to “Patient-Centric”....Pages 250-253 A Fuzzy-Based Context Modeling and Reasoning Framework for CARA Pervasive Healthcare....Pages 254-257 A Smart Garment for Older Walkers....Pages 258-261 Indoor Location Tracking Based on a Discrete Event Model....Pages 262-265 Smart CDSS for Smart Homes....Pages 266-269 Context Awareness for a Smart Environment Utilizing Context Maps and Dempster-Shafer Theory....Pages 270-273 Peer Review Meetings of Family Doctors Show Electronic Data Collection Reduces the Variability of Pharmaceutical Prescriptions at the Local Health Authority of Empoli....Pages 274-277 Heart Failure Artificial Intelligence-Based Computer Aided Diagnosis Telecare System....Pages 278-281 Benchmarking Results of Semantic Reasoners Applied to an Ambient Assisted Living Environment....Pages 282-285 Medbuddy: A Mobile Medicinal Management System for Children with ADD/ADHD....Pages 286-290 An Open Framework for Immersive and Non-immersive Accessibility Simulation for Smart Living Spaces....Pages 291-294 Back Matter....Pages -