Ambient Assisted Living

1. Front Matter

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2. Chapter 1: Assistance Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Architecture of the ‘Daily Care Journal’ for the Support of Health Care Networks

      • Manfred Wojciechowski, Helmut Ristok, Wolfgang Brandes, Bernd Lange, Günter Baumgarten

      Pages 3-16

   3. Technological Stress – Mental Strain of Younger and Older Users If Technology Fails

      • Annette Hoppe

      Pages 17-29

   4. Ubiquitous Life Support Systems for an Ageing Society in Japan

      • Thomas Linner, Bernhard Ellmann, Thomas Bock

      Pages 31-48

3. Chapter 2: Human Machine Interface

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. An Intelligent House Control Using Speech Recognition with Integrated Localization

      • Jozef Ivanecký, Stephan Mehlhase, Margot Mieskes

      Pages 51-62

   3. Ambient Voice Control for a Personal Activity and Household Assistant

      • Niko Moritz, Stefan Goetze, Jens-E. Appell

      Pages 63-74

   4. Natural Gesture Interaction with Accelerometer-Based Devices in Ambient Assisted Environments

      • Kawa Nazemi, Dirk Burkhardt, Christian Stab, Matthias Breyer, Reiner Wichert, Dieter W. Fellner

      Pages 75-90

   5. An Elderly-Oriented Platform to Simplify the Use of Physical Activity Controlled Game Consoles

      • Ian Somlai Schweiger, Axel Czabke, Tim C. Lueth

      Pages 91-100

4. Chapter 3: Platforms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. System Architecture for Palliative Care in the Home Environment

      • Christiane Gaefke, Hannah Baumgartner, Melina Brell, Steffen Simon, Andreas Hein

      Pages 103-115

   3. openURC: Standardisation towards “User Interfaces for Everyone, Everywhere, on Anything”

      • Jan Alexandersson, Jürgen Bund, Eduardo Carrasco, Gorka Epelde, Martin Klíma, Elena Urdaneta et al.

      Pages 117-125

   4. universAAL – An Open and Consolidated AAL Platform

      • Sten Hanke, Christopher Mayer, Oliver Hoeftberger, Henriette Boos, Reiner Wichert, Mohammed-R. Tazari et al.

      Pages 127-140

   5. Towards a Unified Ambient Assisted Living and Personal Health Environment

      • Mohammad Reza Tazari, Reiner Wichert, Thomas Norgall

      Pages 141-155

5. Chapter 4: Activity Recognition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Preventive Emergency Detection Based on the Probabilistic Evaluation of Distributed, Embedded Sensor Networks

      • Björn-Helge Busch, Alexander Kujath, Heiko Witthöft, Ralph Welge

      Pages 159-179

   3. Detection and Classification of Acoustic Events for In-Home Care

      • Jens Schroeder, Stefan Wabnik, Peter W. J. van Hengel, Stefan Goetze

      Pages 181-195

   4. An Approach to the Fusion of Probabilities of Activities for the Robust Identification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

      • Olaf Wilken, Andreas Hein, Matthias Gietzelt, Jens Spehr

      Pages 197-208

   5. A Gesture Based System for Context – Sensitive Interaction with Smart Homes

      • Robert Neßelrath, Chensheng Lu, Christian H. Schulz, Jochen Frey, Jan Alexandersson

      Pages 209-219

In this book, 22 authors discuss development of Ambient Assisted Living. It presents new technological developments which support the autonomy and independence of individuals with special needs. As the technological innovation raises also social issues, the book addresses micro and macro economical aspects of assistive systems and puts an additional emphasis on the ethical and legal discussion. The presentation is supported by real world examples and applications.

• assistive systems
• health economy
• healthcare marketplace
• individuals with special needs
• medical care
• nursing
• patient record privacy
• patient record security
• telemonitoring

• Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD, Darmstadt, Germany

  Reiner Wichert

• VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e. V. , Frankfurt am Main

  Birgid Eberhardt

Policies and ethics