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...
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...
: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...