The challenging context of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) demands for a service-oriented technological shift in the field of ubiquitous computing. Recently, novel paradigms have be...
Michele Amoretti, Maria Chiara Laghi, Francesco Za...
In this paper we assess the potential of rich tactile notifications on mobile phones. Many mobile phone users use vibration output for various types of notification on their phone....
Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Paul Holleis, Albrecht Sch...
To improve the performance and wellbeing of humans in complex human-computer interaction settings, an interesting challenge for an ambient (or pervasive) agent system is to recogni...
Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by caregivers, since they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are managing records at the same time. For t...
With today's technology, elderly users could be supported in living independently in their own homes for a prolonged period of time. Commercially available products enable rem...
Martijn H. Vastenburg, Thomas Visser, Marieke Verm...
Despite the wealth of information and communication technology in society today, there appears to be a lack of acceptable information services for the growing elderly population in...
Erwin R. van Veldhoven, Martijn H. Vastenburg, Dav...
For an ambient intelligent agent to support a human in demanding tasks it is important to be aware of the progress made in a given workflow. It would be possible to interact with t...
In this paper we describe our project in which we study design options for a GPS-based navigation aid for elderly with beginning dementia. In a user centered approach we first stud...
Conference presentations are stressful communication tasks for many speakers. This mental stress inhibits the speaker's ability to recall information and perceive the audience...