Recent advances in ambient assisted living : bridging assistive technologies, e-health and personalized health care / edited by Wei Chen [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Wei, editor.

Series:

Ambient intelligence and smart environments ; Volume 20.

Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 1875-4171 ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assistive computer technology.

Ambient intelligence.

Medical innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Fairfax, Virginia : IOS Press, Inc., [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Berlin, [Germany] ; Washington, District of Columbia : IOS Press, 2015.

Summary:

Recent advances in the field of ambient assistive living have addressed the integration of assistive technologies, e-health and personalized healthcare with the aim of enabling improved social experience as well as achieving better health outcomes.This book focuses on ambient assisted living systems and services for healthcare, a multi-disciplinary field encompassing areas such as electrical engineering, computer science, user-centered design and medicine. The book is divided into three parts: personalized healthcare monitoring technologies; ICT for ambient assistive living; and healing environments. The topics covered include sensor systems, wearable technologies, patient monitoring, home monitoring, personalized healthcare, user-centered design, ethical challenges and clinical evaluation.Providing an overview of new developments in e-health and personalized healthcare, the book will be of interest to engineers, designers and others working in the healthcare industry, and to medical practitioners.

Contents:

Title Page; Preface; Contents; Part 1. Personalized Healthcare Monitoring Technologies; Posture Detection Based on a Waist-Worn Accelerometer: An Application to Improve Freezing of Gait Detection in Parkinson's Disease Patients; EMG Data Analysis of Seizures; Wearable Solutions Using Bioimpedance for Cardiac Monitoring; Impedance Pneumography for Ambulatory Assessment of Obstructive Respiratory Diseases; Part 2. ICT for Ambient Assistive Living; Embodied Ambient Intelligent Systems; mHealth: Challenges and Impact on New Forms of Healthcare

ICT-Enabled Tailored Diet Solutions for Health Promotion Self-ManagementPart 3. Healing Environments; Alarm Management in a Single-Patient Room Intensive Care Units; Smart Dosing: A Mobile Application for Tracking the Medication Tray-Filling and Dispensation Processes in Hospital Wards; Experiences of Stroke Patients, Family and Caregivers of In-Patient Care Environments - An Exploratory Study; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61499-597-4

OCLC:

933740475