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Smart Homes and Health Telematics

6th International Conference, ICOST 2008 Ames, IA, USA, June 28th July 2, 2008, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Sumi Helal
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  2. Simanta Mitra
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  3. Johnny Wong
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  4. Carl K. Chang
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5120)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Session 1: Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults and their Caregivers

    1. An Intelligent RFID System for Improving Elderly Daily Life Independent in Indoor Environment

      • Kung-Ta Huang, Po-Yen Lin, Chih-Yen Chiang, Jui-Sheng Chang, Chih-Ning Huang, Chia-Tai Chan
      Pages 1-8

    2. HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementia

      • Kejun Du, Daqing Zhang, Xingshe Zhou, Mounir Mokhtari, Mossaab Hariz, Weijun Qin
      Pages 9-17

    3. Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prosthetics

      • Chris Nugent, Ferial Moelaert, Richard Davies, Mark Donnelly, Stefan Savenstedt, Franka Meiland et al.
      Pages 18-25

  3. Session 2: Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing

    1. An Integrated Approach to Context Specification and Recognition in Smart Homes

      • Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonello Scalmato, Antonio Sgorbissa, Renato Zaccaria
      Pages 26-33

    2. Robust Face Tracking with Suppressed False Positives in Smart Home Environment

      • Jun-Hyeong Do, Zeungnam Bien
      Pages 34-41

    3. Adaptive Solutions for Access Control within Pervasive Healthcare Systems

      • Dana Al Kukhun, Florence Sedes
      Pages 42-53

  4. Session 3: Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision/Hearing/Cognitive/Communication Impairments

    1. Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspective

      • John O’Donoghue, John Herbert, David Sammon
      Pages 54-61

    2. Design of a Smart Continence Management System Based on Initial User Requirement Assessment

      • Jit Biswas, Aung Aung Phyo Wai, Victor Siang Fook Foo, Chris Nugent, Maurice Mulvenna, David Craig et al.
      Pages 62-72

    3. Social Rhythms and Nocturnal Routines in Community Dwelling Older Adults

      • Julie Behan, David Prendergast, Lorcan Walsh, Brenda Quigley
      Pages 73-80

  5. Session 4: Home Health Monitoring and Intervention

    1. Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home

      • Liming Chen, Chris Nugent, Maurice Mulvenna, Dewar Finlay, Xin Hong, Michael Poland
      Pages 81-89

    2. Video Monitoring of Vulnerable People in Home Environment

      • Quoc-Cuong Pham, Yoann Dhome, Laetitia Gond, Patrick Sayd
      Pages 90-98

    3. An Efficient Method for Activity Recognition of the Elderly Using Tilt Signals of Tri-axial Acceleration Sensor

      • Sa-kwang Song, Jaewon Jang, Soojun Park
      Pages 99-104

  6. Session 5: Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence

    1. A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Living

      • Manfred Wojciechowski, Jinhua Xiong
      Pages 105-112

    2. Abstracting Nutritional Information of Food Service Facilities Using the Pervasive Healthy Diet Adviser

      • Jiten Chhabra, Jasjit Singh, Daniel Serrano-Baquero
      Pages 113-122

    3. Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interface

      • Malek Baklouti, Eric Monacelli, Vincent Guitteny, Serge Couvet
      Pages 123-135

  7. Session 6: Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments

    1. Assessment of the Impact of Sensor Failure in the Recognition of Activities of Daily Living

      • Xin Hong, Chris Nugent, Maurice Mulvenna, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Steven Devlin
      Pages 136-144

    2. Keeping Elderly People at Home: A Multi-agent Classification of Monitoring Data

      • Ali Rammal, Sylvie Trouilhet
      Pages 145-152

    3. HESA: A Human-Centric Evolvable Situation-Awareness Model in Smart Homes

      • Hojun Jaygarl, Katsunori Oyama, Jinchun Xia, Carl K. Chang
      Pages 153-160

  8. Session 7: Real World Deployments and Experiences in Smart Homes, Hospitals, and Living Communities

    1. Sharing of Real-Life Experimental Data in Smart Home and Data Analysis Tool Development

      • Tatsuya Yamazaki, Tetsuo Toyomura
      Pages 161-168
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We often conceptualize that older adults retire into a life of carefree luxury among palm trees, golf courses, and pristine beaches. Unfortunately, reality differs today – many retire in place, and often it is the case they retire in rural areas far from hospitals and care-giving centers. For instance, over half of the older population in the state of Minnesota lives in small towns away from the center of care, which is Minneapolis/St. Paul. This year, ICOST 2008 aimed at focusing on this important reality and on gerontechnology––the use of technology to enhance the quality of life of older adults in rural lands. We had a strong technical program this year spanning many critical topics incl- ing: remote monitoring and tele-care, access control and privacy preservation, und- standing user requirements and needs, autonomic learning and reasoning about user behavior, activities and contexts, user interface design, middleware for sensing and actuation in smart homes, cognitive assistants, context-aware service provisioning, among other topics. We received a total of 54 submissions of papers, abstracts and posters, from 14 diff- ent countries. Through a blind review process, we accepted 24 full papers, 9 abstracts, and 7 posters. Each submission received two or three reviews with the exception of a few that received four reviews. We are thankful to all the reviewers who helped in the review process including members of the Technical Committee and the additional reviewers that we needed to compensate for unreturned reviews.

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