Healthcare Systems and Other Applications

Author

Droes, Rose-marie ; Mulvenna, Maurice ; Nugent, Chris ; Finlay, Dewar ; Donnelly, Mark ; Mikalsen, Marius ; Walderhaug, Stale ; van Kasteren, Tim ; Krose, Ben ; Puglia, Stefano ; Scanu, Fabio ; Migliori, Marco ; Ucar, Erdem ; Atlig, Cenk ; Kilicaslan, Yil

Author_Institution

Vrije Univ., Amsterdam

Volume

6

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

63

Abstract

This paper presents healthcare systems and their applications namely helping people with dementia navigate their day, empowering the elderly and the cognitively disabled, context awareness in residence for elders, RFID-based nutritional assistance, a computer-based library for the blind, an NLP-based tool for assisting people with autism, making smart clothing smarter, PAS: a wireless-enabled personal assistance system for independent living

Keywords

handicapped aids; health care; NLP-based tool; RFID-based nutritional assistance; autism people assistance; blind people assistance; cognitively disabled people assistance; computer-based library; context awareness; dementia people assistance; elderly people assistance; healthcare system; smart clothing; wireless-enabled personal assistance system; Aging; Context-aware services; Dementia; Medical services; Monitoring; Navigation; Prosthetics; Psychology; Senior citizens; Standardization; autism; book readers; dementia; electrocardiogram; healthcare; nutrition; pervasive computing; the elderly;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pervasive Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1268

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPRV.2007.12

Filename

4101143