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Smart Homes and Health Telematics : 6th International Conference, ICOST 2008 Ames, IA, USA, June 28-July 2, 2008 Proceedings

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-69916-3

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The book is organized in topical sections on assistive technology to improve quality of life for older adults and their caregivers; context awareness/autonomous computing; devices, systems and algorithms for vision/hearing/cognitive/communication impairments; home health monitoring and intervention; human-machine interface and ambient intelligence; modeling of physical and conceptual information in intelligent environments; real world deployments and experiences in smart homes, hospitals, and living communities; and social/privacy/security issues.


Subject: Computer Science, Computer Communication Networks, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Computers and Society, access control, algorithms, ambient intelligence, assistive technologies, clustering, cognitive modeling, computer vision, context-awareness, data quality, elderly people, event-based, geriatric patient m, modeling, privacy, security