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

By: Bessam Abdulrazak (Editor), Sylvain Giroux (Editor), Bruno Bouchard (Editor)

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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.

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Smart Home and Village
Adaptative Applications for Heterogeneous Intelligent Environments	p. 1
An Automated Prompting System for Smart Environments	p. 9
Domain Selection and Adaptation in Smart Homes	p. 17
Daily Human Activity Recognition using Depth Silhouettes and R Transformation for Smart Home	p. 25
Activity Recognition in Smart Environments: An Information Retrieval Problem	p. 33
Annotating Sensor Data to Identify Activities of Daily Living	p. 41
Using Association Rule Mining to Discover Temporal Relations of Daily Activities	p. 49
Using Graphs to Improve Activity Prediction in Smart Environments Based on Motion Sensor Data	p. 57
Health Telematics and Healthcare Technology
An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia Who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances	p. 65
Human-Centric Situational Awareness in the Bedroom	p. 72
A Subarea Mapping Approach for Indoor Localization	p. 80
Joint Active Queue Management and Congestion Control Protocol for Healthcare Applications in Wireless Body Sensor Networks	p. 88
CodaQ: A Context-Aware and Adaptive QoS-Aware Middleware for Activity Monitoring	p. 96
Physical Activity Monitoring with Mobile Phones	p. 104
Wellbeing, Ageing Friendly and Enabling Technology
Guidelines for Increasing Prompt Efficiency in Smart Homes According to the Resident's Profile and Task Characteristics	p. 112
Fall Detection from Depth Map Video Sequences	p. 121
Smart Silver Towns: Prospects and Challenges	p. 129
Interdisciplinary Design of an Electronic Organizer for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease	p. 137
From Individual Communication to Social Networks: Evolution of a Technical Platform for the Elderly	p. 145
Evaluation of Video Reminding Technology for Persons with Dementia	p. 153
The "Acceptance" of Ambient Assisted Living: Developing an Alternate Methodology to this Limited Research Lens	p. 161
Medical Health Telematics and Healthcare Technology
An OWL-DL Ontology for the HL7 Reference Information Model	p. 168
Development of the "Care Delivery Frame" for Senior Users	p. 176
Utilizing Wearable Sensors to Investigate the Impact of Everyday Activities on Heart Rate	p. 184
The Smart Home Landscape: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	p. 192
Student Papers
Using Code of Colors through ICT and Home Automation Technologies in the Housing Environment Context for Persons with Loss of Autonomy	p. 200
The COSE Ontology: Bringing the Semantic Web to Smart Environments	p. 205
Portable Ambulatory Urodynamics Monitoring System for Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms	p. 210
Real-Time Interactive Medical Consultation using a Pervasive Healthcare Architecture	p. 215
Hardware Design in Smart Home Applications: Rapid Prototyping and Embedded Systems	p. 220
Audiovisual Assistance for the Elderly - An Overview of the FEARLESS Project	p. 225
Wrenching: Transient Migration from Commonality to Variability in Product Line Engineering of Smart Homes	p. 230
An Intelligent Agent for Determining Home Occupancy Using Power Monitors and Light Sensors	p. 236
Short Papers
Robotic Computer as a Mediator in Smart Environments	p. 241
Design Considerations for Assistive Platforms in Ambient Computing for Disabled People - Wheelchair in an Ambient Environment	p. 246
Establishing a Common Service Platform for Smart Living: Challenges and a Research Agenda	p. 251
Handling user Interface Plasticity in Assistive Environment: UbiSMART Framework	p. 256
Patterns Architecture for Fusion Engines	p. 261
Blind A Shopping: Enabling Accessible Shopping for Visually Impaired People through Mobile Technologies	p. 266
Maisons Vill'ge®: Smart use of Home Automation for Healthy Againg	p. 271
Pervasive Intelligence System to Enable Safety and Assistance in Kitchen for Home-Alone Elderly	p. 276
Heterogeneous Multi-sensor Fusion Based on an Evidential Network for Fall Detection	p. 281
Cognitive Remediation for Inpatients with Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder using "Smart" Technology in a Simulated Apartment: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study	p. 286
Smart Diabetes Management System Based on Service Oriented Architecture	p. 290
An Ambient Approach to Emergency Detection Based on Location Tracking	p. 296
A Study of Long Term Tendencies in Residents' Activities of Daily Living at a Group Home for People with Dementia using RFID Slippers	p. 303
Qualitative Spatial Activity Recognition using a Complete Platform Based on Passive RFID Tags: Experimentations and Results	p. 308
Multiple People Activity Recognition using MHT over DBN	p. 313
Approaches to Smart Home with a Focus on Workspace in Single Household	p. 319
Author Index	p. 325
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