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Author:   Francisco Florez-Revuelta (Senior Researcher, Kingston University, UK) ,  Alexandros Andre Chaaraoui
Publisher:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
Imprint:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9781849199872

ISBN 10:   1849199876
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Chapter 1: Technologies and applications for active and assisted living - current situation Part 1: Technologies for Active and Assisted Living Chapter 2: Current state of the art of smart environments and labs from an ambient assisted living point of view Chapter 3: Ambient and wearable sensors for human health monitoring Chapter 4: Computer vision for active and assisted living Chapter 5: A data fusion approach for identifying lifestyle patterns in elderly care Chapter 6: Towards interoperable enhanced living environments Chapter 7: Reasoning systems forAAL Chapter 8: Person-environment interaction Chapter 9: Data analytics for enabling connected health Part 2: Applications for Active and Assisted Living Chapter 10: Human gait analysis for frailty detection - quantitative techniques and procedures Chapter 11: Fall prevention and detection Chapter 12: Supporting Activities of Daily Living Chapter 13: Outdoor mobility assistance-technologies helping on the way Chapter 14: Location and orientation technologies based on Wi-Fi systems for people with disabilities in indoor environment Chapter 15: Enabling health, well-being and engagement in life through ambient-assisted living technologies - an occupational therapist's lens Chapter 16: Tablet-based clinical decision support system for hospitalised older adults Part 3: Associated Issues and Case Studies Chapter 17: Smart, age-friendly cities and communities: the emergence of socio-technological solutions in the Central and Eastern Europe Chapter 18: Towards accessible ambient-assisted living environments Chapter 19: Privacy and ethical issues Chapter 20: Human-centred design with older adults: examples and recommendations for research, ideation and testing Chapter 21: Design and implementation of a smart home technological platform for the delivery ofAAL services: from requirements to field experience Chapter 22: Technologies and applications for active and assisted living - What's next?

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Francisco Florez-Revuelta is a Senior Researcher at Kingston University, UK, and Associate Professor at University of Alicante, Spain. His main research work is focused on Ambient Assisted Living: Person-Environment Interaction, Computer Vision, and support to the Activities of Daily Living of elderly and/or disabled people. Alexandros Andre Chaaraoui is currently a Software Engineer at Google's Research and Machine Intelligence team in Switzerland, working on Natural Language Generation and Dialogue. Previously he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Alicante, Spain, where his research focused on Human Behaviour Understanding, Computer Vision and Ambient Intelligence.

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