Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health: 6th International Conference, ICT4AWE 2020, Prague, Czech Republic, May 3–5, ... in Computer and Information Science)

This book constitutes the revised, selected and extended papers of the 6th International Conference on Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 7 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers present most recent research on best practices, innovation and technical improvements in the fields of age and health care, education, psychology, social coordination and ambient assisted living. Preface Organization Contents On-Line Retrieval of Health Information Based on Language Complexity, Information Customization and Information Quality 1 Introduction 2 FACILE Principles and Characteristics 2.1 Identification of Requirements of On-Line Health Information Seekers 2.2 Use of schema.org and Health-Lifesci Structured Data 2.3 Mapping Health Information Seeker Requirements to schema.org Elements 3 FACILE Implementation and Use 3.1 Language Level and Ranking Algorithm 3.2 Information Customization 3.3 Information Quality 4 Experimental Results and Discussion 5 Conclusions and Future Work References Emotions and Attitudes of Older Adults Toward Robots of Different Appearances and in Different Situations 1 Background 1.1 Development of Technological Solutions to Support Older Adults 1.2 User Acceptance 1.3 Emotions in Interaction Toward Robots Used for Older Adults 1.4 Appearance of the Robot and Situation of Human-Robot Interaction 2 Methods 2.1 Design 2.2 Participants 2.3 Measures 2.4 Material 2.5 Procedure 2.6 Analysis 3 Results 3.1 Emotions 3.2 Attitudes 4 Discussion 5 Conclusions References IoT Environment for Monitoring Human Movements: Hip Fracture Rehabilitation Case 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Rehabilitation Activity Movement Monitoring Architecture 4 Architectural Functionality Implementation on Hip Fracture Rehabilitation Movement Monitoring 4.1 Wearable Monitoring Tracker Level Functionality 4.2 IoT Gateway or Edge Level Functionality 4.3 Internet-Cloud Level Functionality 5 Conclusions References Older Adults’ Use of Whatsapp in a Polymedia Environment: Managing Timing, Content, Form and Practicality 1 Introduction 1.1 A Subsection Sample 2 Polymedia Environment 3 Study Context 4 Communication Landscape 4.1 Timing: Asynchronous by Choice 4.2 Content: Interesting and Joyful 4.3 Etiquette: Appropriate for Each Situation 4.4 Comfort: As Easy as Possible 5 Conclusion and Discussion References Use of a Socially Assistive Robot to Promote Physical Activity of Older Adults at Home 1 Background 1.1 Societal Changes 1.2 Physical Activity of Older Adults 1.3 Use of Technology as One Possible Solution 2 Methods 2.1 Participants 2.2 Exercise Program 2.3 Questionnaire 2.4 Procedure 2.5 Analyses 3 Results 3.1 Study Population 3.2 Experiences of Older Adults Performing Exercises with the Robot at Home 3.3 Motivation 3.4 Comparison of the Three Types of Instructions 3.5 Recommendations 4 Discussion 5 Conclusions References Comparison of Video and Radar Contactless Heart Rate Measurements 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Heart Rate Estimation from Video 3.1 ICA+PCA Method 3.2 Skin Detection 4 Heart Rate Estimation from Radar 4.1 Radar Signal Processing 5 Experimental Results 6 Conclusions References Ontology-Driven Mental Healthcare Applications: A Case Study on Cognitive Rehabilitation with Serious Games 1 Introduction 2 Ontology Driven Healthcare Applications 2.1 Remote Health Monitoring 2.2 Interventions to Address Dementia Related Behaviors 2.3 Home Care for Patients with Alzheimer 3 Cognitive Rehabilitation 3.1 Serious Games 3.2 COGNIPLAT Platform 3.3 Ontologies 3.4 Game Engine 3.5 Evaluation 4 Discussion 5 Conclusion and Future Work References Author Index