Conference Program

Accepted Papers

Full Papers

A Configurable Telecare System
Claire Maternaghan, Kenneth Turner, Claire maternaghan Claire maternaghan, Claire maternaghan Claire maternaghan, Claire maternaghan Claire maternaghan

A Recommender System For Assistive Environments
Alexandros Papangelis, Georgios Galatas, Fillia Makedon

A semantic wiki for user training in ePrescribing processes
Despina Papakonstantinou, Flora Malamateniou, George Vassilacopoulos

A Tool For Sensor Placement and System Monitoring in Assistive Environments
Alexandros Papangelis, Fillia Makedon

A TV Platform to improve older people’s quality of life: Lessons learned from the evaluation of the VITAL project with Spanish Elderly Users
Unai Diaz, Aitziber Etxaniz, Elena Urdaneta, Gorka Epelde, Xabier Valencia

Active RFID for Medical Aware Environment
Dimitris Agouridis, Muid Mufti, Adeel Mukhtar

AMICA, a versatile telemedical platform for self-management of COPD patients
Ioannis Kouris, Kostas Giokas, Dimitris Koutsouris

An Adaptable Card Game for Older Users
Michalis Foukarakis, Asterios Leonidis, Ilia Adami, Margherita Antona, Constantine Stephanidis

Assessment of Assistive Technologies based on the PSA-BI Model
Stuart Moran, Lawrence Chidzambwa , Keiichi Nakata

Audiovisual Speech Recognition in noisy visual environments
Georgios Galatas, Gerasimos Potamianos, Alexandros Papangelis, Fillia Makedon

Can Cognitive and Functional Measures explain Interactions between Elderly People with Different Levels of Cognitive Decline and an Avatar on TV?
Unai Diaz, Aitziber Etxaniz, Mari feli González, Cristina Buiza, Elena Urdaneta

Comparing Gesture Recognition Accuracy Using Color and Depth Information
Paul Doliotis, Alexandra Stefan, Chris Mcmurrough, David Eckhard, Vassilis Athitsos

Context-Aware Delivery of Information in Assistive Environments utilizing Future Internet Technologies
Ilias Maglogiannis

Cost Effective Depression Patient Thought Record Categorization via Self-Taught Learning
Hua Wang, Heng Huang, Monica Basco, Fillia Makedon

Design Dimensions of Ambient Information Systems to Facilitate the Development of AAL Environments
Juan pablo Garcia, Marcela Rodriguez, Angel Andrade

Designing a multi-purpose capacitive proximity sensing input device
Andreas Braun, Pascal Hamisu

Distance Measure for Querying Arrangements of Temporal Intervals
Orestis Kostakis, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Jaakko Hollmen

E-EPR: A cloud-based architecture of an electronic emergency patient record
Mikaela Poulymenopoulou, Flora Malamateniou, George Vassilacopoulos

Energy Consumption Measurement and Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks for Biomedical Applications
Alexandros Karagiannis, Dimosthenes Vouyioukas, Philippos Constantinou

Experiments with Computer Vision Methods for Hand Detection
Zhong Zhang, Rommel Alonzo, Vassilis Athitsos

Exploring Community Building with an Awareness Display
Dhaval Vyas, Anton Eliens, Wim Poelman

Hefestos: a Model for Ubiquitous Accessibility Support
João Tavares, Jorge Barbosa, Cristiano Costa, Adenauer Yamin, Rodrigo Real

LinkLights: a modular, user adaptable system to support rehabilitation practices
Erik Grönvall, Gunnar Kramp

MCMC Bayesian Inference for Heart Sounds Screening in Assistive Environments
Manolis Maragoudakis, Euripides Loukis

Menu Controller: Making Existing Software More Accessible for People with Motor Impairments
Isaac Paquette, Christopher Kwan, Margrit Betke

Model-Based Search in Large Time Series Databases
Alexios Kotsifakos, Vassilis Athitsos, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Jaakko Hollmen, Dimitrios Gunopulos

Privacy-Enhanced Management of Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Data
George Drosatos, Pavlos Efraimidis

Probabilistic Search of Human by Autonomous Mobile Robot
Syed atif Mehdi, Karsten Berns

Protecting Anonymity in Wireless Medical Monitoring Environments
Petros Belsis, Grammati Pantziou

Recognition of Sleep Patterns Using a Bed Pressure Mat
Vangelis Metsis, Georgios Galatas, Alexandros Papangelis, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Fillia Makedon

Setting the Table for the Blind
Mechmet Chiousemoglou, Helmut Jürgensen

Swallow Sound Analysis for Automated Ingestion Detection
William Walker, Dinesh Bhatia

Topological Gabor Descriptors: Exploring a Filter Bank Structure for Image Feature Matching
Vishnukumar Galigekere, Gutemberg Guerra-filho

Towards Global Aerobic Activity Monitoring
Attila Reiss, Didier Stricker

Usability Assessment of a Pervasive System to Assist Caregivers in Dealing with Repetitive Behaviors of Patients with Dementia
Rene Navarro, Jesus Favela

Usability of Caching Approaches in Pervasive Ad-Hoc
Andre Peters, Andreas Heuer

Use of RSSI and Time-of-Flight Wireless Signal Characteristics for Location Tracking
Joshua Davies, Farhad Kamangar, Gergely Zaruba, Manfred Huber, Vassilis Athitsos

Watering the flowers: virtual haptic environments for training of forearm rotation in persons with central nervous deficits.
Tom De weyer, Karin Koninx, Sofie Notelaers, Richard Geers, Peter Feys

Short Papers

A Prototype Obstacle Navigation Device For The Blind
David calder

Abnormal Behaviours Identification for An Elder’s Life Activities using Dissimilarity Measurements
Sawsan Mahmoud, Ahmad Lotfi, Caroline Langensiepen

Community Detection in Collaborative Environments: A Comparative Analysis
Andreas Kalaitzakis, Harris Papadakis, Costas Panagiotakis, Paraskevi Fragopoulou

Design for all: towards a social platform for integrating distributed open-access repositories
Cleo Sgouropoulou, Petros Belsis, Anastasios Koutoumanos

Elderly daily activity habits or lifestyle in their natural environments
Marie Chan, Daniel Estève, Eric Campo

Quality of Life Information Services based on Participatory Environmental Sensing
Kostas Karatzas, Victor Epitropou, Anastassios Bassoukos

Real-Time Path Planning for a Robotic Arm
Kavita Krishnaswamy, Jennifer Sleeman, Tim Oates

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