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

Session 1: Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults and their Caregivers.- An Intelligent RFID System for Improving Elderly Daily Life Independent in Indoor Environment.- HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementia.- Evaluation of Mobile and Home Based Cognitive Prosthetics.- Session 2: Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing.- An Integrated Approach to Context Specification and Recognition in Smart Homes.- Robust Face Tracking with Suppressed False Positives in Smart Home Environment.- Adaptive Solutions for Access Control within Pervasive Healthcare Systems.- Session 3: Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision/Hearing/Cognitive/Communication Impairments.- Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspective.- Design of a Smart Continence Management System Based on Initial User Requirement Assessment.- Social Rhythms and Nocturnal Routines in Community Dwelling Older Adults.- Session 4: Home Health Monitoring and Intervention.- Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home.- Video Monitoring of Vulnerable People in Home Environment.- An Efficient Method for Activity Recognition of the Elderly Using Tilt Signals of Tri-axial Acceleration Sensor.- Session 5: Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence.- A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Living.- Abstracting Nutritional Information of Food Service Facilities Using the Pervasive Healthy Diet Adviser.- Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interface.- Session 6: Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments.- Assessment of the Impact of Sensor Failure in the Recognition of Activities of Daily Living.- Keeping Elderly People at Home: A Multi-agent Classification of Monitoring Data.- HESA: A Human-Centric Evolvable Situation-Awareness Model in Smart Homes.- Session 7: Real World Deployments and Experiences in Smart Homes, Hospitals, and Living Communities.- Sharing of Real-Life Experimental Data in Smart Home and Data Analysis Tool Development.- Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Place.- Observing Outdoor Activity Using Global Positioning System-Enabled Cell Phones.- Session 8: Social/Privacy/Security Issues.- MISS: Medicine Information Support System in the Smart Home Environment.- Challenges of Designing Privacy Enhanced Context-Aware Middleware for Assisted Healthcare.- Safety-Ensuring Systematic Design for Service Robots.