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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789699403321

Titolo

Towards Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities [[electronic resource] ] : 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011, Proceedings / / edited by Bessam Abdulrazak, Sylvain Giroux, Bruno Bouchard, Hélène Pigot, Mounir Mokhtari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2011

ISBN

3-642-21535-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 327 p. 123 illus., 88 illus. in color.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 6719

Disciplina

362.40483

Soggetti

Special purpose computers

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Application software

Artificial intelligence

Optical data processing

Pattern recognition

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Artificial Intelligence

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Pattern Recognition

Conference proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Smart home and village -- Health telematics and healthcare technology -- Wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology -- Medical health telematics and healthcare technology -- Student papers -- Short papers.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International



Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with  16 short papers and 8 student papers  were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart home and village; health telematics and healthcare technology; wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology; and medical health telematics and healthcare technology.