Title :
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
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;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2007.12
