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DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Some important aspects of Medical and Nursing House Call sustaining Assisted Living of Ageing Population
Although the house call a decade ago was declared a vanishing practice, statistics show an upwelling of home visits by physicians, in the developed countries, during the last ten y...
Basile Spyropoulos, Aris Tzavaras, Maria Botsivaly...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Ambient Assisted Living Systems - The Conflicts between Technology, Acceptance, Ethics and Privacy
Installing and using AAL Smart Home-systems in the homes of older people not only offers a tremendous potential for increasing safety and quality of life but may also evoke relucta...
Wolfgang L. Zagler, Paul Panek, Marjo Rauhala
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Functional Changes in Older Adults: Impact on Home Technology Design
: The aging demographic being experienced by all western countries has significant impact on health care utilization as well as the ability to remain in independent living situatio...
Victor A. Hirth
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Aging Users are Still Users
Today’s tech-savvy boomers will remain comfortable with technology as they age, though they may need different interfaces. They need help with evaluating technical resources, but...
Mary Shaw
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Reference Architecture for Ambient Intelligence
A lot of software infrastructures for distributed device ensembles with quite different approaches have been developed in the past. This article describes the need of a reference a...
Reiner Wichert
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Ethical Assessment in the Design of Ambient Assisted Living
This paper tackles on ethical issues that are relevant when designing new technological service systems for the assisted living. In this paper we present our preliminary ethical gu...
Veikko Ikonen, Eija Kaasinen
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Assisting age related capabilities by ambient technology to prevent functional decline
The elderly is characterized by age related capabilities and handicaps. Whereas age related capabilities like plasticity and adaptability on changing living conditions can lead to ...
Mehmet Gövercin, Richard Willmann, Gerd Lanfe...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Aspect Tagging for Collaborative Structuring
Local tag structures have become frequent through Web 2.0: Users "tag" their data without specifying the underlying semantics. Every user annotates items in an individual...
Katharina Morik, Michael Wurst
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Divide-and-Conquer: A Proportional, Minimal-Envy Cake-Cutting Procedure
Steven J. Brams, Michael A. Jones, Christian Klaml...