Impact Analysis of Solutions for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, Artiminio, Italy, June 12-15, 2012. Proceedings
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The Application of Mobile Agent Technology to Mobility Management in MARINE
Mobility management is concerned with the maintenance of information in the network which can be used to locate a mobile user. The mobility management information stored in the network is used, for example, to...
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Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prosthetics
Those suffering from mild dementia exhibit impairments of memory, thought and reasoning. It has been recognised that the deployment of technological solutions to address such impairments may have a major posit...
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Prototy** Cognitive Prosthetics for People with Dementia
In the COGKNOW project, a cognitive prosthetic has been developed through the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based services to address the unmet needs and demands of persons with...
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Requirements for the Deployment of Sensor Based Recognition Systems for Ambient Assistive Living
The deployment, replication and adaptation of sensor environments at various scales and for various purposes is one of the challenges academia as well as industry are faced with today. Individual user requirem...
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Evaluation of Video Reminding Technology for Persons with Dementia
One of the main features associated with those suffering from dementia is memory loss. Recent studies have shown that the deployment of technological reminder based solutions, have to a certain extent, been ca...
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Annotating Sensor Data to Identify Activities of Daily Living
DANTE is an application, which supports the annotation of ADLs captured using a pair of stereo cameras. DANTE is able to interpret the position and orientation of any object that is tagged with a special marke...
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A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Adaptive Personalized Help-on-Demand Services
Mobile applications that encompass personalization and context-aware components are increasingly becoming more prevalent. The ability to offer personalized content and User Interfaces to the users of these app...
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Passive Sleep Actigraphy: Evaluating a Non-contact Method of Monitoring Sleep
Sleep problems can have a major impact on cognitive function, particularly in older adults who are also more likely to have a clinically diagnosed cognitive impairment. While several approved methods for sleep...
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Stakeholder Involvement Guidelines to Improve the Design Process of Assistive Technology
The Mobile Phone-based Video Streaming (MPVS) system has continually been improved following interaction and evaluation with the relevant stakeholders primarily lay users, trial managers and developers. Follow...
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A Usability Protocol for Evaluating Online Social Networks
Online Social Networking (OSN) has become one of the biggest successes of the Internet. Facebook is the most popular service with over 800 million users. OSN have the potential to combat feelings of social iso...
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Prediction of Assistive Technology Adoption for People with Dementia
Assistive technology can enhance the level of independence of people with dementia thereby increasing the possibility of remaining in their own homes. It is important that suitable technologies are selected fo...
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A Generic Upper-Level Ontological Model for Context-Aware Applications within Smart Environments
Context modeling has attracted increasing attention due to the prevalence of context-aware applications within smart environments. Whilst upper-level context ontologies exist for use within smart environments,...
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‘We Should Do Something for the Fiftieth’: Remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995
Six years before Britain’s first annual Holocaust Memorial Day was observed in 2001, the 50th anniversaries of the liberation of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen were remembered as part of a wider public calendar o...
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Stakeholder involvement guidelines to improve the design process of assistive technology: lesson from the development of the MPVS system
The Mobile Phone-based Video Streaming (MPVS) system has continually been improved following interaction and evaluation with the relevant stakeholders, primarily lay users, trial managers and developers. Follo...
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The impact of solutions for chronic disease prevention and management
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A Framework for Situation Awareness Based upon Dynamic Situation Modeling
This paper proposes a framework to model dynamically changing situations in real world environments. In the real world, situations naturally vary in how they occur. Understanding these variations is essential ...
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Predicting Technology Adoption in People with Dementia; Initial Results from the TAUT Project
The acceptance of technology is a crucial factor in successfully deploying technology solutions in healthcare. Our previous research has highlighted the potential of modelling user adoption from a range of env...
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Wearable Computing to Support Activities of Daily Living
This paper proposes an approach to determining an occupant’s indoor location through the use of machine vision techniques combined with wearable computing. Based on “off-the-shelf” machine vision tools a syste...
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Investigating Methods for Increasing the Adoption of Social Media amongst Carers for the Elderly
Social Media has become one of the biggest successes on the World Wide Web. The Online Social Network (OSN) Facebook is by far the most popular with over 1 billion users. OSNs have the potential to minimise th...
