Aging population ratios are rising significantly. Health monitoring systems (HMS) in smart
environments have evolved rapidly to become a viable alternative to traditional healthcare …

In recent decades, smart home technology has advanced, improving the well-being and
quality of life of its users. Thus, its applications have expanded, particularly in health and …

Activity recognition is considered as an important task in many applications, particularly in
healthcare services. Among these applications include medical diagnostic, monitoring of …

Context-aware computing enriches the capabilities of intelligent devices complemented with
smart applications and helps establish smart ecosystems in fields such as Ambient …

Existing e-health monitoring systems mainly operate in isolation from the requirements of
modern healthcare institutions. They do not include optimized techniques which learn the …

In several countries, the ageing population contour focuses on high healthcare costs and
overloaded health care environments. Pervasive health care monitoring system can be a …

Rapid population aging and advances in sensing technologies motivate the development of
unobtrusive healthcare systems, designed to unobtrusively collect an elderly's personalized …

In this paper, we present a close reading of work in ubicomp of applications for older people.
Starting from three lines of enquiry defined in the inaugural issue of this journal, we discuss …

Background Active ageing is described as the process of optimizing health, empowerment,
and security to enhance the quality of life in the rapidly growing population of older adults …

The aim of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is to help people (eg, elderly, children) to have an
independent and monitored life with the use and assistance of technology. For this …