Smart Homes and Health Telematics: 6th International Conference, ICOST 2008 Ames, IA, USA, June 28-July 2, 2008 Proceedings [1 ed.] 3540699147, 9783540699149

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Table of contents :
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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
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