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Ambient Assisted Living and Active Aging

5th International Work-Conference, IWAAL 2013, Carrillo, Costa Rica, December 2-6, 2013, Proceedings

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  1. Christopher Nugent

    1. Faculty of Computing and Engineering, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK

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  2. Antonio Coronato

    1. ICAR-CNR, Napoli, Italy

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  3. José Bravo

    1. MAmI Research Lab, Castilla-La Manca University, Ciudad Real, Spain

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8277)

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

Conference series link(s): IWAAL: International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living

Conference proceedings info: IWAAL 2013.

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Session 1: AAL Environments

    1. A Knowledge Based Framework to Support Active Aging at Home Based Environments

      • Miguel Ángel Valero, José Bravo, Juan Manuel García, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Ana Gómez
      Pages 1-8

    2. Mobile Based Prompted Labeling of Large Scale Activity Data

      • Ian Cleland, Manhyung Han, Chris Nugent, Hosung Lee, Shuai Zhang, Sally McClean et al.
      Pages 9-17

    3. Mobile NFC vs Touchscreen Based Interaction: Architecture Proposal and Evaluation

      • Pablo Curiel, Koldo Zabaleta, Ana B. Lago
      Pages 18-25

    4. A Database-Centric Architecture for Home-Based Health Monitoring

      • Wagner O. de Morais, Jens Lundström, Nicholas Wickström
      Pages 26-34

    5. Improving Health Services Using Cloud Computing, Big Data and Wireless Sensors

      • Diego Gachet Páez, Víctor Padrón, Manuel de Buenaga, Fernando Aparicio
      Pages 35-38

  3. Session 2: User Interaction and Assistive Solutions

    1. Focus Group Evaluation of Scenarios for Fall Risk Assessment and Fall Prevention in Two Countries

      • Heidi Similä, Milla Immonen, Carlos García Gordillo, Tuula Petäkoski-Hult, Patrik Eklund
      Pages 39-46

    2. Enhancing Social Interaction between Older Adults and Their Families

      • Diego Muñoz, Francisco Gutierrez, Sergio F. Ochoa, Nelson Baloian
      Pages 47-54

    3. Personalization of Serious Videogames for Occupational Engagement for Elderly

      • Mario A. Bruno, Roberto G. Aldunate, Jaime Meléndez
      Pages 55-62

    4. Return to Activities of Daily Life: Physiotherapy Rehabilitation with Serious Game

      • Juan Manuel González-Calleros, Sergio Arturo Arzola-Herrera, Josefina Guerrero-García, Etelvina Archundia-Sierra, Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga
      Pages 63-66

    5. Image Analysis for Crack Detection in Bone Cement

      • Carlos Briceño, Jorge Rivera-Rovelo, Narciso Acuña
      Pages 67-70

  4. Session 3: Sensing and Activity Recognition

    1. Mobile and Context-Aware Grocery Shopping to Promote Active Aging

      • Netzahualcoyotl Hernández, Carlos Refugio, Monica Tentori, Jesus Favela, Sergio Ochoa
      Pages 71-79

    2. Handling Displacement Effects in On-Body Sensor-Based Activity Recognition

      • Oresti Baños, Miguel Damas, Héctor Pomares, Ignacio Rojas
      Pages 80-87

    3. Application of a Cluster-Based Classifier Ensemble to Activity Recognition in Smart Homes

      • Anna Jurek, Yaxin Bi, Chris D. Nugent, Shengli Wu
      Pages 88-95

    4. A Vision System for Intelligent Monitoring of Activities of Daily Living at Home

      • Alexandros Andre Chaaraoui, José Ramón Padilla-López, Francisco Javier Ferrández-Pastor, Juan Manuel García-Chamizo, Mario Nieto-Hidalgo, Vicente Romacho-Agud et al.
      Pages 96-99

    5. Detecting Changes in Elderly’s Mobility Using Inactivity Profiles

      • Rainer Planinc, Martin Kampel
      Pages 100-103

  5. Session 4: Key Application Domains

    1. An Integral Medicine Taking Solution for Mild and Moderate Alzheimer Patients

      • Gabriel Urzaiz, Eric Murillo, Sergio Arjona, Ramon Hervas, Jesus Fontecha, Jose Bravo
      Pages 104-111

    3. A Real-Time Insulin Injection System

      • Mwaffaq Otoom, Hussam Alshraideh, Hisham M. Almasaeid, Diego López-de-Ipiña, José Bravo
      Pages 120-127

    4. Development and Evaluation of an Augmented Object for Notifications of Particular Emails

      • Gustavo López Herrera, Mariana López, Luis A. Guerrero
      Pages 128-131
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2013, held in Carillo, Costa Rica, in December 2013. The 13 full papers and 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The focus of the papers is on following topics: AAL environments, user interaction and assistive solutions, sensing and activity recognition and key application domains.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Computing and Engineering, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK

    Christopher Nugent

  • ICAR-CNR, Napoli, Italy

    Antonio Coronato

  • MAmI Research Lab, Castilla-La Manca University, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Bravo

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