Elderly care at home is a matter of great concern if the elderly live alone, since unforeseen
circumstances might occur that affect their well-being. Technologies that assist the elderly in …

Introduction and objectives The current and upcoming demographic change in industrial
countries is a challenge for our society, economically as well as socially. The aim of this …

Smart homes equipped with ambient intelligence technology constitute a promising direction
to enable the growing number of elderly to continue to live in their own home as long as …

Purpose: To obtain insight into what kind of monitoring technologies exist to monitor activity
in-home, what the characteristics and aims of applying these technologies are, what kind of …

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems based on sensor technologies are seen as key
enablers to an ageing society. However, most approaches in this space do not provide a …

To the right and to the left as in mirrors, to the right and to the left through the glass walls I
see others like myself, other rooms like my own, other clothes like my own, movements like …

This article presents an experiment with seniors and people with visual impairment in a
voice-controlled smart home using the Sweet-Home system. The experiment shows some …

Abstract Automatic human Activity Recognition (AR) is an important process for the provision
of context-aware services in smart spaces such as voice-controlled smart homes. This paper …

This study analyzes the technologies used in dealing with frailty within the following areas:
prevention, care, diagnosis and treatment. The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to …

Since the population of the elderly grows highly, the improvement of the quality of life of
elderly at home is of a great importance. This can be achieved through the development of …