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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"ambient assisted living"”.
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Reasoning with user's preferences in ambient assisted living environments
… the importance of preference management in ambient intelligent environments is key to providing systems that are better prepared to meet users' expectations. Preferences are fundamental in decision making, so it is an essential element in developing systems that guides the choices of the …
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Ambient assisted living deployment aims to empower people living with dementia (AnAbEL)
Ambient Assisted Living aims to support the wellbeing of people with special needs by offering assistive solutions. Those systems focused on dementia claim to increase the autonomy of people living with dementia by monitoring their activities. Thus, topics such as Activity Recognition related to …
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A Big Bang Big Crunch Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System for Machine Vision-Based Event Detection and Summarization in Real-world Ambient Assisted Living
… such as security surveillance, healthcare and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) among others. This is so as to realize intelligent environments which are capable of detecting users’ actions and gestures so that the needed services can be provided automatically and instantly to maximize user comfort …
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Privacy Modelling and Preservation for Assisted Living within Smart Homes
… population worldwide has created a need for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions that allow people to continue living and ageing in their own homes comfortably and safely. AAL solutions typically combine IoT technologies and machine learning to provide services that are context-aware and …
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Middleware for assisted living homes (MiddAALware)
… of an ageing population, a challenge that ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies aim to mitigate. Typically, AAL systems employ middleware to facilitate integration among diverse devices. However, current middleware solutions tend to be large and are designed for expansive smart …
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A tailored smart home for dementia care
… utilising Smart Homes (SH), as an instance of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies, for dementia care could potentially facilitate the care and consequently improve the quality of PwDs’ well-being. Nevertheless, most of the studies view dementia care as a straight application of standard …
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A software development framework for context-aware systems
… of many areas such as Intelligent Environments, Ambient Intelligence, Ambient Assisted Living or Pervasive Computing. Embedding contextual awareness into computers promises a fundamental enhancement in the interaction between computers and humans. While traditional computers require explicit …
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A holistic intelligent environment quality traceability approach for user-centric context-aware systems
… of modern software systems. For example, in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and the Internet of Things (IoT), context-awareness can be applied to deliver life-critical systems that empower users by reducing their dependence on others. Appreciating this role and the impact of context-aware …
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Internet of Things: Architecture and Services for Healthcare
… premises, e.g., remote health monitoring, Ambient Assisted Living among others.</p> <p>The impact of two prominent key technologies: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) has been discussed and showed the benefits of implementing control and management …
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Machine learning techniques for sensor-based household activity recognition and forecasting
… of cheap and unobtrusive smart-home sensors, ambient assisted living tools promise to offer innovative solutions to support the users in carrying out their everyday activities in a smoother and more sustainable way. To be effective, these solutions need to constantly monitor and forecast the …
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Smart and Secure Augmented Reality for Assisted Living
… AR has been extremely useful in the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). AR-based AAL solutions are designed to support people in maintaining their autonomy and compensate for slight physical and mental restrictions by instructing them on everyday tasks. The discovery of visual attention …
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Inferring Complex Activities for Context-aware Systems within Smart Environments
… shift in public healthcare provisioning. Thus, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) using Smart Homes (SH) technologies has been rigorously investigated to help address the aforementioned problems. Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a critical component in AAL systems which enables applications such …
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Behaviour recognition and monitoring of the elderly using wearable wireless sensors. Dynamic behaviour modelling and nonlinear classification methods and implementation.
… of health concerns arising from independent living. Real-time implementation is proposed through development of an Instance Based Learning approach in combination with a Bloom Filter, speeding up the classification operation and reducing the storage requirements for the considerable amount of …
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Mobile und Echtzeit-fähige Kontext-Modellierung, -Erfassung und -Verwaltung in der Domäne des (Smart) Home Sharings
Im Laufe dieser Arbeit wird ein Konzept vorgestellt, welches als Erweiterung der “Home Sharing” Domäne (die eigene Wohnung zur Verfügung zu stellen) angesehen wird. Eine Analyse der aktuellen Anbieter von “Home Sharing” Lösungen zeigte, dass die Betrachtung der Domäne aus technologischer Sicht …
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On the Ethical Implications of Personal Health Monitoring
Recent years have seen an influx of medical technologies capable of remotely monitoring the health and behaviours of individuals to detect, manage and prevent health problems. Known collectively as personal health monitoring (PHM), these systems are intended to supplement medical care with health …