Our research was motivated by the growing aging population worldwide and the need to
concentrate research efforts on a specific target group; it focuses on elderly persons with …

Objective: To provide an overview of the state of research concerning smart technologies
that support independent living in buildings, as well as a deeper literature review of the …

Background With an ever-growing ageing population, dementia is fast becoming the chronic
disease of the 21 st century. Elderly people affected with dementia progressively lose their …

On account of chronic neurocognitive disorders, many people progressively lose their
autonomy and become more dependent on others, finally reaching the stage when they …

The large scale deployment of ambient assisted living systems raises challenges related to
the heterogeneity of the environments in which sensors, devices and services will be …

Smart environments (SmE) are richly integrated with multiple heterogeneous devices; they
perform the operations in intelligent manner by considering the context and …

An anticipated increase in the number of people with dementia will lead to an escalation in
health and social care spending unless it is altered by a major breakthrough in treatment or …

In this paper, we propose a method for logging micro-motion of in-home daily activity based
on the skeleton recognition of the elderly in their daily life. We believe that in near future …

Pervasive computing systems are heterogenous and complex as they usually involve
human activities, various sensors and actuators as well as middleware for system …

The proliferation of ageing population creates heavy burdens to all industrialised societies.
Smart systems equipped with ambient intelligence technologies, also known as Ambient …