This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2015.
The 20 full papers and 16 short contributions included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: design and usability; assistive and sentient environments; human behavior and activities monitoring, and health IT and supportive technology. The book also contains 3 invited talks.
Design and Usability.- Technical Challenges Towards an AAL Large Scale Deployment.- Design Considerations for Adaptive Lighting to Improve Seniors Mood.- Perspectives on Collaboration in Technology Innovation for Ageing.- User Interaction Concepts in Smart Caring Homes for Elderlywith Chronic Conditions.- Assistive and Sentient Environments.- Using Sensory Substitution of Median Sensory Deficits in the TraumatizedHand to Develop an Innovative Home-Based Hand Rehabilitation System.-QueFaire: Context-Aware in-Person Social Activity RecommendationSystem for Active Aging.- Human Behavior and Activities Monitoring.-Recommendations for the Creation of Datasets in Support of Data DrivenActivity Recognition Models.- Activity Playback Modeling for Smart Home Simulation.- Activity Recognition in Assisted Living Facilities with Incremental, Approximate Ground Truth.- From User Requirements to Data: An XML Standard for Structuring Events in Monitored Environments.- Using Big Data for Emotionally Intelligent Mobile Services ThroughMulti-Modal Emotion Recognition.- Assistive and Sentient EnvironmentsSmartphone-Based System for Sensorimotor Control Assessment,Monitoring, Improving and Training at Home.- Get that Camera Out of My House! Conjoint Measurement of Preferences for Video-Based Healthcare Monitoring Systems in Private and Public Places.- Privacy-Preserving Energy-Reading for Smart Meter.- Human Behavior and Activitilƒ+