Active and Assisted Living

Francisco Florez-Revuelta is a Senior Researcher at Kingston University, UK, and Associate Professor at University of Alicante, Spain. His main research work is focused on Ambient Assisted Living: Person-Environment Interaction, Computer Vision, and support to the Activities of Daily Living of elderly and/or disabled people.Alexandros Andre Chaaraoui is currently a Software Engineer at Google's Research and Machine Intelligence team in Switzerland, working on Natural Language Generation and Dialogue. Previously he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Alicante, Spain, where his research focused on Human Behaviour Understanding, Computer Vision and Ambient Intelligence.

• Chapter 1: Technologies and applications for active and assisted living - current situationPart 1: Technologies for Active and Assisted LivingChapter 2: Current state of the art of smart environments and labs from an ambient assisted living point of viewChapter 3: Ambient and wearable sensors for human health monitoringChapter 4: Computer vision for active and assisted livingChapter 5: A data fusion approach for identifying lifestyle patterns in elderly careChapter 6: Towards interoperable enhanced living environmentsChapter 7: Reasoning systems forAALChapter 8: Person-environment interactionChapter 9: Data analytics for enabling connected health Part 2: Applications for Active and Assisted LivingChapter 10: Human gait analysis for frailty detection - quantitative techniques and proceduresChapter 11: Fall prevention and detectionChapter 12: Supporting Activities of Daily LivingChapter 13: Outdoor mobility assistance-technologies helping on the wayChapter 14: Location and orientation technologies based on Wi-Fi systems for people with disabilities in indoor environmentChapter 15: Enabling health, well-being and engagement in life through ambient-assisted living technologies - an occupational therapist's lensChapter 16: Tablet-based clinical decision support system for hospitalised older adults Part 3: Associated Issues and Case StudiesChapter 17: Smart, age-friendly cities and communities: the emergence of socio-technological solutions in the Central and Eastern EuropeChapter 18: Towards accessible ambient-assisted living environmentsChapter 19: Privacy and ethical issuesChapter 20: Human-centred design with older adults: examples and recommendations for research, ideation and testingChapter 21: Design and implementation of a smart home technological platform for the delivery ofAAL services: from requirements to field experienceChapter 22: Technologies and applications for active and assisted living - What's next?