Smart Homes and Health Telematics: 6th International Conference, ICOST 2008 Ames, IA, USA, June 28-July 2, 2008 Proceedings [1 ed.]
3540699147, 9783540699149
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telemat
Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages - An Intelligent RFID System for Improving Elderly Daily Life Independent in Indoor Environment....Pages 1-8 HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementia....Pages 9-17 Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prosthetics....Pages 18-25 An Integrated Approach to Context Specification and Recognition in Smart Homes....Pages 26-33 Robust Face Tracking with Suppressed False Positives in Smart Home Environment....Pages 34-41 Adaptive Solutions for Access Control within Pervasive Healthcare Systems....Pages 42-53 Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspective....Pages 54-61 Design of a Smart Continence Management System Based on Initial User Requirement Assessment....Pages 62-72 Social Rhythms and Nocturnal Routines in Community Dwelling Older Adults....Pages 73-80 Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home....Pages 81-89 Video Monitoring of Vulnerable People in Home Environment....Pages 90-98 An Efficient Method for Activity Recognition of the Elderly Using Tilt Signals of Tri-axial Acceleration Sensor....Pages 99-104 A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 105-112 Abstracting Nutritional Information of Food Service Facilities Using the Pervasive Healthy Diet Adviser....Pages 113-122 Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interface....Pages 123-135 Assessment of the Impact of Sensor Failure in the Recognition of Activities of Daily Living....Pages 136-144 Keeping Elderly People at Home: A Multi-agent Classification of Monitoring Data....Pages 145-152 HESA: A Human-Centric Evolvable Situation-Awareness Model in Smart Homes....Pages 153-160 Sharing of Real-Life Experimental Data in Smart Home and Data Analysis Tool Development....Pages 161-168 Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Place....Pages 169-176 Observing Outdoor Activity Using Global Positioning System-Enabled Cell Phones....Pages 177-184 MISS: Medicine Information Support System in the Smart Home Environment....Pages 185-199 Challenges of Designing Privacy Enhanced Context-Aware Middleware for Assisted Healthcare....Pages 200-207 Safety-Ensuring Systematic Design for Service Robots....Pages 208-217 Back Matter....Pages -