Ambient Media and Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Session 1

   1. A Physical Basis for Ambient Intelligence

      • Raymond Oliver, Anne Toomey

      Pages 1-11

   2. Service Composition and Advanced User Interfaces in the Home of Tomorrow: The SM4All Approach

      • Tiziana Catarci, Claudio Di Ciccio, Vincenzo Forte, Ettore Iacomussi, Massimo Mecella, Giuseppe Santucci et al.

      Pages 12-19

3. Session 2

   1. Wireless Sensor Network Deployment for Building Environmental Monitoring and Control

      • Essa Jafer, Rostislav Spinar, Paul Stack, Cian O’Mathuna, Dirk Pesch

      Pages 20-27

   2. Design and Evaluation of a Fall Detection Algorithm on Mobile Phone Platform

      • Manuel Silva, Pedro M. Teixeira, Filipe Abrantes, Filipe Sousa

      Pages 28-35

4. Session 3

   1. System Performance of an LTE MIMO Downlink in Various Fading Environments

      • Constantinos T. Angelis, Spyridon K. Chronopoulos

      Pages 36-43

   2. Development of Computer Vision Algorithm for Surgical Skill Assessment

      • Gazi Islam, Kanav Kahol, John Ferrara, Richard Gray

      Pages 44-51

   3. Open Architecture to Raise Awareness of Energy Consumption on the Home Environment

      • António Rodrigues, Carlos Resende, Filipe Sousa, Ana Aguiar

      Pages 52-59

5. Session 4

   1. RFID-Based System for Tracking People: Approaches to Tagging Demented Patients

      • Aleksandar Matic, Venet Osmani, Oscar Mayora

      Pages 60-65

   2. Processing Location Data for Ambient Intelligence Applications

      • Samuel del Bello, Jared Hawkey, Sofia Oliveira, Olivier Perriquet, Nuno Correia

      Pages 66-69

   3. Interactive Haptic Virtual Collaborative Training Simulator to Retain CPR Skills

      • Prabal Khanal, Kanav Kahol

      Pages 70-77

6. Session 5

   1. Future User Centric Media: Research Challenges and the Road Ahead

      • Oscar Mayora

      Pages 78-106

   2. Erratum: A Physical Basis for Ambient Intelligence

      • Raymond Oliver, Anne Toomey, Jenny Tillotson

      Pages E1-E1

7. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Ambient Systems and Media, AMBI-SYS 2011, held in Porto, Portugal in March 2011. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected and cover a wide range of topics as innovative solutions in the field of ambient assisted living, providing a new physical basis for ambient intelligence by also leveraging on contributions offered by interaction design methods and approaches.

• assistive technology
• e-health
• location-aware computing
• patient surveillance
• pervasive computing
• ubiquitous computing
• wireless networks

• CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

  Silvia Gabrielli

• FhP-AICOS, Porto, Portugal

  Dirk Elias

• Department of Biometical Informatics, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University, Phoenix,, USA

  Kanav Kahol

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