Keynote lectures

The dramatic increase of the elderly population causes the impending needs for applying new technology for elderly to improve health conditions and increase the quality of life. With nowadays advance of information and communication techniques which has brought human daily life with great conveniences beyond the limitation of spatial and time constraints, there is no reason that the benefits from these techniques are not applied to the improvement of the healthcare and the increase of quality of life to the older people. Under such a situation, many national-wide projects have been initiated to integrate manpower to address the universal issue. Innovative devices with intelligent sensing capabilities are being developed for providing ambient assisted living to the older people. Fundamentally the assisted living aims to maintain the older people in healthier life style and functional capability, to increase their autonomy and mobility, to enhance their security, to prevent them from isolation and to increase their participation of social network, and etc.. Consequently the functions should be addressed from multidimensional needs. In this talk, an overview of the ambient assisted living is presented from multiple perspectives. Techniques and examples of intelligent sensing will also be presented to demonstrate their applications to ambient assisted living for the older people.