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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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Editors:
  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)

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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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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

    2. Human Facial Expression Recognition Using Wavelet Transform and Hidden Markov Model

      • Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi, Sungyoung Lee
      Pages 112-119

    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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  • 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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