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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

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Editors:
  1. Bessam Abdulrazak

    1. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

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  2. Sylvain Giroux

    1. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

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  3. Bruno Bouchard

    1. Université de Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada

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  4. Hélène Pigot

    1. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

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  5. Mounir Mokhtari

    1. Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R A-Star), Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France and CNRS IPAL (UMI 2955), Singapore, Singapore

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Table of contents (49 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Smart Home and Village

    1. Adaptative Applications for Heterogeneous Intelligent Environments

      • Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Marcos Sacristan
      Pages 1-8

    2. An Automated Prompting System for Smart Environments

      • Barnan Das, Chao Chen, Adriana M. Seelye, Diane J. Cook
      Pages 9-16

    3. Domain Selection and Adaptation in Smart Homes

      • Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook
      Pages 17-24

    4. Daily Human Activity Recognition Using Depth Silhouettes and \(\mathcal{R}\) Transformation for Smart Home

      • Ahmad Jalal, Md. Zia Uddin, Jeong Tai Kim, Tae-Seong Kim
      Pages 25-32

    5. Activity Recognition in Smart Environments: An Information Retrieval Problem

      • Belkacem Chikhaoui, Shengrui Wang, Hélène Pigot
      Pages 33-40

    6. Annotating Sensor Data to Identify Activities of Daily Living

      • Mark Donnelly, Tommaso Magherini, Chris Nugent, Federico Cruciani, Cristiano Paggetti
      Pages 41-48

    7. Using Association Rule Mining to Discover Temporal Relations of Daily Activities

      • Ehsan Nazerfard, Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook
      Pages 49-56

    8. Using Graphs to Improve Activity Prediction in Smart Environments Based on Motion Sensor Data

      • S. Seth Long, Lawrence B. Holder
      Pages 57-64

  3. Health Telematics and Healthcare Technology

    1. An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia Who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances

      • Chika Oshima, Naoki Itou, Kazushi Nishimoto, Naohito Hosoi, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Koichi Nakayama
      Pages 65-71

    2. Human-Centric Situational Awareness in the Bedroom

      • Yu Chun Yen, Jiun-Yi Li, Ching Hu Lu, Tsung Han Yang, Li Chen Fu
      Pages 72-79

    3. A Subarea Mapping Approach for Indoor Localization

      • Shumei Zhang, Paul McCullagh, Chris Nugent, Huiru Zheng, Norman Black
      Pages 80-87

    4. Joint Active Queue Management and Congestion Control Protocol for Healthcare Applications in Wireless Body Sensor Networks

      • Nazbanoo Farzaneh, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee
      Pages 88-95

    5. CodaQ: A Context-Aware and Adaptive QoS-Aware Middleware for Activity Monitoring

      • Shahram Nourizadeh, Ye-Qiong Song, Jean-Pear Thomesse
      Pages 96-103

    6. Physical Activity Monitoring with Mobile Phones

      • Lin Sun, Daqing Zhang, Nan Li
      Pages 104-111

  4. Wellbeing, Ageing Friendly and Enabling Technology

    1. Guidelines for Increasing Prompt Efficiency in Smart Homes According to the Resident’s Profile and Task Characteristics

      • Mike Van Tassel, Julie Bouchard, Bruno Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane
      Pages 112-120

    2. Fall Detection from Depth Map Video Sequences

      • Caroline Rougier, Edouard Auvinet, Jacqueline Rousseau, Max Mignotte, Jean Meunier
      Pages 121-128

    3. Smart Silver Towns: Prospects and Challenges

      • Sung Jun Kim, Bharat Dave
      Pages 129-136

    4. Interdisciplinary Design of an Electronic Organizer for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Hélène Imbeault, Hélène Pigot, Nathalie Bier, Lise Gagnon, Nicolas Marcotte, Sylvain Giroux et al.
      Pages 137-144

    5. From Individual Communication to Social Networks: Evolution of a Technical Platform for the Elderly

      • Cécile Bothorel, Christophe Lohr, André Thépaut, Fabrice Bonnaud, Gilbert Cabasse
      Pages 145-152
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Bessam Abdulrazak, Sylvain Giroux, Hélène Pigot

  • Université de Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada

    Bruno Bouchard

  • Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R A-Star), Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France and CNRS IPAL (UMI 2955), Singapore, Singapore

    Mounir Mokhtari

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