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Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telematics, ICOST 2009, held in Tours, France, in July 2009. The 27 revised full papers and 20 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognitive assistance and chronic diseases management; ambient living systems; service continuity and context awareness; user modeling and human-machine interaction; ambient intelligence modeling and privacy issues, human behavior and activities monitoring.

Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 597

Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book investigates various definitions of trust and their characteristics in distributed systems and digital computing, and details how to model and implement trust in a digital system"--Provided by publisher.

Enhanced Quality of Life and Smart Living
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Enhanced Quality of Life and Smart Living

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2017, held in Paris, France, in August 2017. The 18 regular papers, 5 short papers together with 2 invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference features a dynamic program incorporating a range of design, development, deployment and evaluation of Smart Urban Environments, Assistive Technologies, Chronic Disease Management, Coaching and Health Telematics systems.

Proceedings Of The Singaporean-french Ipal Symposium 2009 - Sinfra'09 (Cd-rom)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Proceedings Of The Singaporean-french Ipal Symposium 2009 - Sinfra'09 (Cd-rom)

This Singaporean-French Symposium aims to strengthen existing research collaboration between French and Singapore scientists, and to explore and develop new collaborations in IPAL (Image Perception, Access & Language) — the Singaporean-French international research lab created between the French National Research Center (CNRS), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2 R-A∗STAR) and the Joseph Fourier University (UJF). SinFra'09 welcomes researchers and collaborators under IPAL organizations and those who wish to collaborate with IPAL. The symposium proposes Tutorials and Scientific Sessions in relevant Singaporean — French common interest fiel...

User Modeling 2005
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

User Modeling 2005

The 33 revised full papers and 30 poster summaries presented together with papers of 12 selected doctoral consortium articles and the abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The book offers topical sections on adaptive hypermedia, affective computing, data mining for personalization and cross-recommendation, ITS and adaptive advice, modeling and recognizing human activity, multimodality and ubiquitous computing, recommender systems, student modeling, user modeling and interactive systems, and Web site navigation support.

Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013, held in Singapore, in June 2013. The 22 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper and 19 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Supportive Technology for Ageing and People with Cognitive Impairment; Activity Recognition and Algorithmic Techniques; Trust, Security and Social Issues; Assistive Robotics and HCI Issues; Supporting Safety and Pervasive Healthcare; Home Energy Usage, Reasoning Framework, Services; Algorithms for Smart Homes; Eldercare – Activity Recognition and Fall Detection; Healthcare and Rehabilitation; Robotics and Assistive Living.

Human Centered Computing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 996

Human Centered Computing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Human Centered Computing Conference, HCC 2016, that consolidated and further develops the successful ICPCA/SWS conferences on Pervasive Computing and the Networked World, and which was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in January 2016. The 58 full papers and 30 short papers presented in this volume together with one keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. These proceedings present research papers investigating into a variety of aspects towards human centric intelligent societies. They cover the categories: infrastructure and devices; service and solution; data and knowledge; and community.

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-06-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Gesture Workshop, GW'99, held in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in March 1999. The 16 revised long papers and seven revised short papers were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. Also included are four invited papers and the transcription of a round table discussion. The papers are organized in sections on human perception and production of gesture, localization and segmentation, recognition, sign language, gesture synthesis and animation, and multimodality.

A Conflicted View of Telehomecare After a 20 Year Journey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

A Conflicted View of Telehomecare After a 20 Year Journey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-28
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Telehomecare systems have been in existence, in one form or another, for at least a decade. At the outset, the concept seemed to promise both a solution to controlling rising health care costs and a means of delivering the improved care which would enable the elderly to stay in their own homes for longer; but although it received enthusiastic support from governments and care professionals, as well as the commercial sector, adoption within a given community has not yet been achieved, and overall success has been limited at best. This book addresses the question of why, despite the investment of so much time, money and effort, Telehomecare is not more widely used than it is. The author descri...

Advances in Home Care Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Advances in Home Care Technologies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

An ageing population is burdening social and healthcare services around the world, and thisproblem is likely to get worse as the percentage of older people continues to rise. Manygovernments are already responding to this challenge, and a key element in their strategies is thedevelopment and deployment of computer-based telecare and telehealth technologies to support care athome in a cost-effective manner. Human involvement in care continues to be central, but home caretechnologies can offer reassurance, and support routine aspects, to the benefit of all concerned. This bookprovides an up-to-date overview of key advances in the relevant