Towards Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities : 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011, Proceedings

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and 8 student papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart home and village; health telematics and healthcare technology; wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology; and medical health telematics and healthcare technology Front Matter....Pages - Adaptative Applications for Heterogeneous Intelligent Environments....Pages 1-8 An Automated Prompting System for Smart Environments....Pages 9-16 Domain Selection and Adaptation in Smart Homes....Pages 17-24 Daily Human Activity Recognition Using Depth Silhouettes and $\mathcal{R}$ Transformation for Smart Home....Pages 25-32 Activity Recognition in Smart Environments: An Information Retrieval Problem....Pages 33-40 Annotating Sensor Data to Identify Activities of Daily Living....Pages 41-48 Using Association Rule Mining to Discover Temporal Relations of Daily Activities....Pages 49-56 Using Graphs to Improve Activity Prediction in Smart Environments Based on Motion Sensor Data....Pages 57-64 An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia Who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances....Pages 65-71 Human-Centric Situational Awareness in the Bedroom....Pages 72-79 A Subarea Mapping Approach for Indoor Localization....Pages 80-87 Joint Active Queue Management and Congestion Control Protocol for Healthcare Applications in Wireless Body Sensor Networks....Pages 88-95 CodaQ: A Context-Aware and Adaptive QoS-Aware Middleware for Activity Monitoring....Pages 96-103 Physical Activity Monitoring with Mobile Phones....Pages 104-111 Guidelines for Increasing Prompt Efficiency in Smart Homes According to the Resident’s Profile and Task Characteristics....Pages 112-120 Fall Detection from Depth Map Video Sequences....Pages 121-128 Smart Silver Towns: Prospects and Challenges....Pages 129-136 Interdisciplinary Design of an Electronic Organizer for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 137-144 From Individual Communication to Social Networks: Evolution of a Technical Platform for the Elderly....Pages 145-152 Evaluation of Video Reminding Technology for Persons with Dementia....Pages 153-160 The “Acceptance” of Ambient Assisted Living: Developing an Alternate Methodology to This Limited Research Lens....Pages 161-167 An OWL-DL Ontology for the HL7 Reference Information Model....Pages 168-175 Development of the “Care Delivery Frame” for Senior Users....Pages 176-183 Utilizing Wearable Sensors to Investigate the Impact of Everyday Activities on Heart Rate....Pages 184-191 The Smart Home Landscape: A Qualitative Meta-analysis....Pages 192-199 Using Code of Colors through ICT and Home Automation Technologies in the Housing Environment Context for Persons with Loss of Autonomy....Pages 200-204 The COSE Ontology: Bringing the Semantic Web to Smart Environments....Pages 205-209 Portable Ambulatory Urodynamics Monitoring System for Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms....Pages 210-214 Real-Time Interactive Medical Consultation Using a Pervasive Healthcare Architecture....Pages 215-219 Hardware Design in Smart Home Applications: Rapid Prototyping and Embedded Systems....Pages 220-224 Audiovisual Assistance for the Elderly - An Overview of the FEARLESS Project....Pages 225-229 Wrenching: Transient Migration from Commonality to Variability in Product Line Engineering of Smart Homes....Pages 230-235 An Intelligent Agent for Determining Home Occupancy Using Power Monitors and Light Sensors....Pages 236-240 Robotic Computer as a Mediator in Smart Environments....Pages 241-245 Design Considerations for Assistive Platforms in Ambient Computing for Disabled People - Wheelchair in an Ambient Environment....Pages 246-250 Establishing a Common Service Platform for Smart Living: Challenges and a Research Agenda....Pages 251-255 Handling User Interface Plasticity in Assistive Environment: UbiSMART Framework....Pages 256-260 Patterns Architecture for Fusion Engines....Pages 261-265 BlindShopping: Enabling Accessible Shopping for Visually Impaired People through Mobile Technologies....Pages 266-270 Maisons Vill’Âge ® : Smart Use of Home Automation for Healthy Aging....Pages 271-275 Pervasive Intelligence System to Enable Safety and Assistance in Kitchen for Home-Alone Elderly....Pages 276-280 Heterogeneous Multi-sensor Fusion Based on an Evidential Network for Fall Detection....Pages 281-285 Cognitive Remediation for Inpatients with Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder Using “Smart” Technology in a Simulated Apartment: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study....Pages 286-289 Smart Diabetes Management System Based on Service Oriented Architecture....Pages 290-295 An Ambient Approach to Emergency Detection Based on Location Tracking....Pages 296-302 A Study of Long Term Tendencies in Residents’ Activities of Daily Living at a Group Home for People with Dementia Using RFID Slippers....Pages 303-307 Qualitative Spatial Activity Recognition Using a Complete Platform Based on Passive RFID Tags: Experimentations and Results....Pages 308-312 Multiple People Activity Recognition Using MHT over DBN....Pages 313-318 Approaches to Smart Home with a Focus on Workspace in Single Household....Pages 319-323 Back Matter....Pages - Edited By Bessam Abdulrazak, Sylvain Giroux, Bruno Bouchard, Hélène Pigot, Mounir Mokhtari.