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ECSCW
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Exploring cooperation through a binder: A context for IT tools in elderly care at home
Abstract. This paper examines the empirical findings of a study of the work and cooperation taking place within and between the home help service and home health care in a Swedish ...
Alexandra Petrakou
DATE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Health-care electronics The market, the challenges, the progress
— Exploding health care demands and costs of aging and stressed populations necessitate the use of more in-home monitoring and personalized health care. Electronics hold great pr...
Wolfgang Eberle, Ashwin S. Mecheri, Thi Kim Thoa N...
ITNG
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Implementing and Validating an Environmental and Health Monitoring System
In this paper the authors describe the implementation and validation of a prototype of an environmental and health monitoring system based on a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The ...
Marco Messina, Yen Yang Lim, Elaine Lawrence, Don ...
ICOST
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
An Architecture to Combine Context Awareness and Body Sensor Networks for Health Care Applications
Information derived from wearable sensors, such as illness/fall alarms, can be enhanced with context information to provide advanced health care and assisted living applications. I...
Alessia Salmeri, Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Luca Lam...
BIOSTEC
2011
201views Healthcare» more  BIOSTEC 2011»
13 years 9 months ago
Aal@home: A New Home Care Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Tool for Ambient Assisted Living
In this article we describe a new wireless biosignal system which monitors in a long-term basis, the users at their homes. The system consists of wearable sensors that measure hear...
Joana Sousa, Susana Palma, Hugo Silva, Hugo Gamboa