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AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
JXTA-SOAP: Implementing Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Computing Platforms for Ambient Assisted Living
The challenging context of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) demands for a service-oriented technological shift in the field of ubiquitous computing. Recently, novel paradigms have be...
Michele Amoretti, Maria Chiara Laghi, Francesco Za...
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Rich Tactile Output on Mobile Devices
In this paper we assess the potential of rich tactile notifications on mobile phones. Many mobile phone users use vibration output for various types of notification on their phone....
Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Paul Holleis, Albrecht Sch...
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Estimation of Emotion Generation for an Ambient Agent Model
To improve the performance and wellbeing of humans in complex human-computer interaction settings, an interesting challenge for an ambient (or pervasive) agent system is to recogni...
Tibor Bosse, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Enabling NFC Technology for Supporting Chronic Diseases: A Proposal for Alzheimer Caregivers
Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by caregivers, since they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are managing records at the same time. For t...
José Bravo, Diego López-de-Ipi&ntild...
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Designing Acceptable Assisted Living Services for Elderly Users
With today's technology, elderly users could be supported in living independently in their own homes for a prolonged period of time. Commercially available products enable rem...
Martijn H. Vastenburg, Thomas Visser, Marieke Verm...
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Designing an Interactive Messaging and Reminder Display for Elderly
Despite the wealth of information and communication technology in society today, there appears to be a lack of acceptable information services for the growing elderly population in...
Erwin R. van Veldhoven, Martijn H. Vastenburg, Dav...
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An Ambient Agent Model Exploiting Workflow-Based Reasoning to Recognize Task Progress
For an ambient intelligent agent to support a human in demanding tasks it is important to be aware of the progress made in a given workflow. It would be possible to interact with t...
Fiemke Both, Mark Hoogendoorn, Jan Treur
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Creating Design Guidelines for a Navigational Aid for Mild Demented Pedestrians
In this paper we describe our project in which we study design options for a GPS-based navigation aid for elderly with beginning dementia. In a user centered approach we first stud...
F. N. Hagethorn, Ben J. A. Kröse, P. de Greef...
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Dynamic vs. Static Recognition of Facial Expressions
Bogdan Raducanu, Fadi Dornaika
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Analysis of Heart Stress Response for a Public Talk Assistant System
Conference presentations are stressful communication tasks for many speakers. This mental stress inhibits the speaker's ability to recall information and perceive the audience...
Martin Kusserow, Oliver Amft, Gerhard Tröster