Bessam Abdulrazak

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 - Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet / Web, Bessam Abdulrazak

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Smart Home and Village -- Adaptative Applications for Heterogeneous Intelligent Environments / Aitor Almeida, Pablo OrduNa, Eduardo Castillejo, Diego LOpez-de-IpiNa, Marcos Sacristan -- An Automated Prompting System for Smart Environments / Barnan Das, Chao Chen, Adriana M. Seelye, Diane J. Cook -- Domain Selection and Adaptation in Smart Homes / Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook -- Daily Human Activity Recognition using Depth Silhouettes and R Transformation for Smart Home / Ahmad Jalal, Md. Zia Uddin, Jeong Tai Kim, Tae-Seong Kim -- Activity Recognition in Smart Environments: An Information Retrieval Problem / Belkacern Chikhaoui, Shengrui Wang, HElEne Pigot -- Annotating Sensor Data to Identify Activities of Daily Living / Mark Donnelly, Tommaso Magherini, Chris Nugent, Federico Cruciani, Cristiano Paggetti -- Using Association Rule Mining to Discover Temporal Relations of Daily Activities / Ehsan Nazerfard, Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook -- Using Graphs to Improve Activity Prediction in Smart Environments Based on Motion Sensor Data / S. Seth Long, Lawrence B. Holder -- Health Telematics and Healthcare Technology -- An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia Who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances / Chika Oshima, Naoki Itou, Kazushi Nishimoto, Naohito Hosoi, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Koichi Nakayama -- Human-Centric Situational Awareness in the Bedroom / Yu Chun Yen, Jiun-Yi Li, Ching Hu Lu, Tsung Han Yang, Li Chen Fu -- A Subarea Mapping Approach for Indoor Localization / Shumei Zhang, Paul McCullagh, Chris Nugent, Huiru Zheng, Norman Black -- Joint Active Queue Management and Congestion Control Protocol for Healthcare Applications in Wireless Body Sensor Networks / Nazbanoo Farzaneh, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee -- CodaQ: A Context-Aware and Adaptive QoS-Aware Middleware for Activity Monitoring / Shahram Nourizadeh, Ye-Qiong Song, Jean-Pear Thomesse -- Physical Activity Monitoring with Mobile Phones / Lin Sun, Daqing Zhang, Nan Li -- Wellbeing, Ageing Friendly and Enabling Technology -- Guidelines for Increasing Prompt Efficiency in Smart Homes According to the Resident's Profile and Task Characteristics / Mike Van Tassel, Julie Bouchard, Bruno Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane -- Fall Detection from Depth Map Video Sequences / Caroline Rougier, Edouard Auvinet, Jacqueline Rousseau, Max Mignotte, Jean Meunier -- Smart Silver Towns: Prospects and Challenges / Sung Jun Kim, Bharat Dave -- Interdisciplinary Design of an Electronic Organizer for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease / HElEne Imbeault, HElEne Pigot, Nathalie Bier, Lise Gagnon, Nicolas Marcotte, Sylvain Giroux, Tamas FUlUp -- From Individual Communication to Social Networks: Evolution of a Technical Platform for the Elderly / CEcile Bothorel, Christophe Lohr, AndrE ThEpaut, Fabrice Bonnaud, Gilbert Cabasse -- Evaluation of Video Reminding Technology for Persons with Dementia / Chris Nugent, Sonja O'Neill, Mark Donnelly, Guido Parente, Mark Beattie, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Sarah Mason, David Craig -- The Acceptance of Ambient Assisted Living: Developing an Alternate Methodology to this Limited Research Lens / Robert Beringer, Andrew Sixsmith, Michael Campo, Julie Brown, Rose McCloskey -- Medical Health Telematics and Healthcare Technology -- An OWL-DL Ontology for the HL7 Reference Information Model / Ashraf Mohammed Iqbal -- Development of the Care Delivery Frame for Senior Users / Yi-Shin Chen, Yeh-Liang Hsu, Chia-Che Wu, Yen-Wei Chen, Ju-An Wang -- Utilizing Wearable Sensors to Investigate the Impact of Everyday Activities on Heart Rate / Leo Galway, Shuai Zhang, Chris Nugent, Sally McClean, Dewar Finlay, Bryan Scotney -- The Smart Home Landscape: A Qualitative Meta-analysis / Sam Solaimani, Harry Bouwman, Nico Baken -- Student Papers -- Using Code of Colors through ICT and Home Automation Technologies in the Housing Environment Context for Persons with Loss of Autonomy / Marie Delvigne, AnaIs Santos, AurElie Tardot, Maxime Devilleger, Adrien Fortin, Thomas Maitre, Guillaume Latron, AurElie Bernard, Morane Gache, Mathieu Pastier, Laurent Billonnet, Emmanuel Desbordes, Jean-Michael Dumas, Bruno Fayette, Michelle Denis-Gay, AurEly Dussartre -- The COSE Ontology: Bringing the Semantic Web to Smart Environments / Zachary Wemlinger, Lawrence Holder -- Portable Ambulatory Urodynamics Monitoring System for Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms / Keo-Sik Kim, Chul-Gyu Song, Jeong-Hwan Seo, Min-Ho Kim, Sang-Hun Ryu -- Real-Time Interactive Medical Consultation using a Pervasive Healthcare Architecture / Bingchuan Yuan, John Herbert -- Hardware Design in Smart Home Applications: Rapid Prototyping and Embedded Systems / Tao Long, Johnny Wong, Debra Satterfield, Hen-I. Yang, Viren Amin -- Audiovisual Assistance for the Elderly - An Overview of the FEARLESS Project / Rainer Planinc, Martin Kampel, Sebastian Zambanini -- Wrenching: Transient Migration from Commonality to Variability in Product Line Engineering of Smart Homes / Sugam Sharma, Hen-I. Yang, Johnny Wong, Carl K. Chang -- An Intelligent Agent for Determining Home Occupancy Using Power Monitors and Light Sensors / Stephen Makonin, Fred Popowich -- Short Papers -- Robotic Computer as a Mediator in Smart Environments / Hyun Kim, Young-Ho Suh, Joo-Haeng Lee, Joonmyun Cho, Moohun Lee, Jeongnam Yeom, Blagovest Vladimirov, Hyoung Sun Kim, Nam-Shik Park -- Design Considerations for Assistive Platforms in Ambient Computing for Disabled People - Wheelchair in an Ambient Environment / Marwa Hassan, Imad Mougharbel, Nada Meskawi, Jean-Yves Tigli, Michel Riveill -- Establishing a Common Service Platform for Smart Living: Challenges and a Research Agenda / Fatemeh Nikayin, Danai Skournetou, Mark De Reuver -- Handling user Interface Plasticity in Assistive Environment: UbiSMART Framework / Thibaut Tiberghien, Mounir Mokhtari, Hamdi Aloulou, Jit Biswas, Jiaqi Zhu, Vwen Yen Lee -- Patterns Architecture for Fusion Engines / Ahmad Wehbi, Manolo Dulva Hina, Atef Zaguia, Amar Ramdane-Cherif, Chakib Tadj -- Blind A Shopping: Enabling Accessible Shopping for Visually Impaired People through Mobile Technologies / Diego LOpez-de-IpiNa, Tania Lorido, Unai LOpez -- Maisons Vill'Age(R) Smart use of Home Automation for Healthy Againg / Shahram Nourizadeh, Claude Deroussent -- Pervasive Intelligence System to Enable Safety and Assistance in Kitchen for Home-Alone Elderly / Aung Aung Phyo Wai, Sivasubramaniam Shanthini Devi, Jit Biswas, Sanjib Kumar Panda -- Heterogeneous Multi-sensor Fusion Based on an Evidential Network for Fall Detection / Paulo Armando Cavalcante Aguilar, Jerome Boudy, Dan Istrate, Hamid Medjahed, Bernadette Dorizzi, JoAo Cesar Moura Mota, Jean Louis Baldinger, Toufik GuettaricImad Belfeki -- Cognitive Remediation for Inpatients with Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder using Smart Technology in a Simulated Apartment: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study / Deborah Corring, Robbie Campbell, Abraham Rudnick -- Smart Diabetes Management System Based on Service Oriented Architecture / Wail M. Omar, Modafar Ati -- An Ambient Approach to Emergency Detection Based on Location Tracking / Martin Floeck, Lothar Litz, Thorsten Rodner -- A Study of Long Term Tendencies in Residents' Activities of Daily Living at a Group Home for People with Dementia using RFID Slippers / Tsutomu Fujinami, Motoki Miura, Ryozo Takatsuka, Taro Sugihara -- Qualitative Spatial Activity Recognition using a Complete Platform Based on Passive RFID Tags: Experimentations and Results / Kevin Bouchard, Bruno Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane -- Multiple People Activity Recognition using MHT over DBN / Andrei Tolstikov, Clifton Phua, Jit Biswas, Weimin Huang -- Approaches to Smart Home with a Focus on Workspace in Single Household / Hee Hwa Chae, Mi Jeong Kim -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: 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.