Ambient Assisted Living and Active Aging 5th International Work Conference IWAAL 2013 Carrillo Costa Rica December 2 6 2013 Proceedings 1st Edition Miguel Ángel Valero 3319030922 9783319030920

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• ISBN 10: 3319030922
• ISBN 13: 9783319030920
• Author: Miguel Ángel Valero

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.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

2 Related Projects

3 The Platform Infrastructure

3.1 Model

3.2 Server

3.3 Mobile Application

4 Touchscreen vs NFC Evaluation

5 Conclusion

References

A Database-Centric Architecture for Home-Based Health Monitoring

1 Introduction

1.1 Background and Related Work

1.2 Approach and Contribution

2 Database-Centric System Architecture

2.1 Resource Adapters

2.2 Active Database

3 In-Database Services for Home-Based Healthcare Monitoring Using the ”Trygg om natten” Dataset

4 Results

5 Discussion and Conclusion

References

Improving Health Services Using Cloud Computing, Big Data and Wireless Sensors

1 Introduction

2 Proposed Architecture for Chronic Patients Monitoring

3 Smart Mobile Device and Sensors

4 Conclusions and Future Work

References

Session 2: User Interaction and Assistive Solutions

Focus Group Evaluation of Scenarios for Fall Risk Assessment and Fall Prevention in Two Countries

1 Introduction

2 Methods

2.1 Scenarios

2.2 Focus Group Evaluation

2.3 Data Analysis

2.4 Statistical Power

3 Results

3.1 Questionnaire Results

3.2 Qualitative Data Results

4 Discussion

References

Enhancing Social Interaction between Older Adults and Their Families

1 Introduction

2 Related Work

3 Architecture of the Social Connector

4 Services for Elders

5 Preliminary Results

6 Conclusions and Future Work

References

Personalization of Serious Videogames for Occupational Engagement for Elderly

1 Introduction

2 Cognitive Intervention

3 Personalization of Serious Videogame to Support Cognitive Performance

4 Case Study: Real Time Strategy Serious Videogame

4.1 Behavior Tree

4.2 Validation by the Expert

5 Conclusions

References

Return to Activities of Daily Life: Physiotherapy Rehabilitation with Serious Game

1 Introduction

2 Virtual Spaces for Rehabilitation of Activities of Daily Life

3 Conclusions

References

Image Analysis for Crack Detection in Bone Cement

1 Introduction

2 Method

3 Experimental Results

4 Conclusion

References

Session 3: Sensing and Activity Recognition

Mobile and Context-Aware Grocery Shopping to Promote Active Aging

1 Introduction

2 Understanding the Shopping Practices of Older Adults

3 Designing a Grocery Shopping Application for Active Aging

4 Walk, Save and Share for Active Aging: The WaSSAA App

4.1 Using WaSSAA

5 Formative Evaluation of WaSSAA

5.1 Price Awareness and Sensitivity

5.2 Utility and Ease of Use of WaSSAA

5.3 Socialization Strategies Associated to Grocery Shopping

6 Conclusions

References

Handling Displacement Effects in On-Body Sensor-Based Activity Recognition

1 Introduction

2 Sensor Displacement Effects

3 Activity Recognition Methods

4 Experimental Setup

5 Results and Discussion

6 Conclusions

References

Application of a Cluster-Based Classifier Ensemble to Activity Recognition in Smart Homes

1 Introduction

2 Relevant Work

3 Cluster-Based Classifier Ensemble

3.1 Creating Base Classifiers

3.2 Combining Base Classifier Outputs

4 Empirical Evaluation

4.1 Data Pre-processing

4.2 Implementation Details

5 Results and Discussion

6 Conclusions

References

A Vision System for Intelligent Monitoring of Activities of Daily Living at Home

1 Introduction

2 Human Action Recognition

3 Privacy

4 Conclusions

References

Detecting Changes in Elderly’s Mobility Using Inactivity Profiles

1 Introduction

2 Methodology

3 Results

4 Conclusion

References

Session 4: Key Application Domains

An Integral Medicine Taking Solution for Mild and Moderate Alzheimer Patients

1 Introduction

2 Revision

3 Motivation

4 Solution

5 First Prototype Implementation

6 Conclusion and Work in Progress

References

Human Facial Expression Recognition Using Wavelet Transform and Hidden Markov Model

1 Introduction

2 MaterialandMethod

2.1 Feature Extraction Using Wavelet Transform

2.2 Expression Modeling and Training Using HMM

3 Experimental Results and Discussion

4 Conclusion

References

A Real-Time Insulin Injection System

1 Introduction

2 Literature Review

3 Markov Processes for Modeling Blood Sugar Level

4 System Architecture

5 Conclusion

References

Development and Evaluation of an Augmented Object for Notifications of Particular Emails

1 Introduction

2 Design and Development of the Augmented Object

3 Validating the A Augmented Object

4 Conclusions and Further Work

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