Smart Homes and Health Telematics: 12th International Conference, ICOST 2014, Denver, CO, USA, June 25-27, 2014, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 8456)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2014, held in Denver, CO, USA in June 2014. The 21 revised full papers presented together with three keynote papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Design and Usability, assistive and sentient environments, cognitive technology, activity recognition, context and situation awareness, Health IT, and short contributions. Front Matter....Pages I-XXII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Designing a Multi-sided Health and Wellbeing Platform: Results of a First Design Cycle....Pages 3-12 Design and Usability of a Smart Home Sensor Data User Interface for a Clinical and Research Audience....Pages 13-20 EasiSocial: An Innovative Way of Increasing Adoption of Social Media in Older People....Pages 21-28 Agile Development for the Creation of Proper Human-Computer Interfaces for the Elderly....Pages 29-38 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 Testing Real-Time In-Home Fall Alerts with Embedded Depth Video Hyperlink....Pages 41-48 ShowMeHow: Using Smart, Interactive Tutorials in Elderly Software Development....Pages 49-58 Actimetry@home: Actimetric Tele-surveillance and Tailored to the Signal Data Compression....Pages 59-70 Monitoring Patient Recovery Using Wireless Physiotherapy Devices....Pages 71-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Comparison of Two Prompting Methods in Guiding People with Traumatic Brain Injury in Cooking Tasks....Pages 83-92 A Collaborative Patient-Carer Interface for Generating Home Based Rules for Self-Management....Pages 93-102 Measuring the Impact of ICTs on the Quality of Life of Ageing People with Mild Dementia....Pages 103-109 VA SmartHome for Veterans with TBI: Implementation in Community Settings....Pages 110-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Regression Analysis for Gesture Recognition Using RFID Technology....Pages 121-128 Improving Activity Recognition in Smart Environments with Ontological Modeling....Pages 129-137 Remote Monitoring Using Smartphone Based Plantar Pressure Sensors: Unimodal and Multimodal Activity Detection....Pages 138-146 Mining for Patterns of Behaviour in Children with Autism Through Smartphone Technology....Pages 147-154 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Ontology Based Context Fusion for Behavior Analysis and Prediction....Pages 157-164 Quantifying Semantic Proximity Between Contexts....Pages 165-174 Emotion Aware System for the Elderly....Pages 175-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Dual Locks: Partial Sharing of Health Documents in Cloud....Pages 187-194 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Biomedical Ontology Matching as a Service....Pages 195-203 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Action Prediction in Smart Home Based on Reinforcement Learning....Pages 207-212 A Mobile Survey Tool for Smoking Dependency Among Native Americans....Pages 213-218 Smart Built Environments and Independent Living: A Public Health Perspective....Pages 219-224 iCanLearn: A Mobile Application for Creating Flashcards and Social StoriesTM for Children with Autism....Pages 225-230 A Comparison Between Ambient Assisted Living Systems....Pages 231-237 Access My Campus....Pages 238-241 Immersive Physiotherapy: Challenges for Smart Living Environments and Inclusive Communities....Pages 242-248 Evaluation of the Barthel Index Presented on Paper and Developed Digitally....Pages 249-254 CALONIS: An Artificial Companion Within a Smart Home for the Care of Cognitively Impaired Patients....Pages 255-260 Back Matter....Pages 261-262