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Title:
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A MOBILE SYSTEM FOR ASSISTED LIVING WITH AMBIENT FACIAL INTERFACES |
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Author(s):
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Barnabás Takács , Dávid Hanák |
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ISBN:
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ISSN: 1646-3692 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías and Marcin Paprzycki |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Ambient Assisted Living, home monitoring, mobile care, MediCAST, Ambient Facial Interface, robotics,
Virtual Human |
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Type:
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Journal Paper |
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First Page:
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33 |
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Last Page:
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50 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper describes a mobile Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solution designed to meet the requirements
of modern health services in caring for, monitoring and motivating the elderly in their own environment.
Our solution goes beyond the function of classical telemonitoring by delivering integrated
functionality that includes health management, mental monitoring, mood assessment as well as physical
and relaxation exercises. In addition, we provide communication and delivery services in location-based
manner using built in GPS, WiFi and 3G mobile connectivity (MediCAST). Bluetooth compatible blood
pressure and body weight measurement devices are complemented with a body-mounted wireless
physiological sensor to monitor activity, body temperature and stress. Telemetric data is continuously
recorded on a local host computer while simultaneously being also sent to a central database, where a
rule-based system or monitoring health personnel may make emergency assessment. To further help the
elderly, to monitor their own drug intake or dietary goals we introduce a novel feedback and display
methodology, called Ambient Facial Interfaces (AFI) that employ animated photo-realistic faces to show
them in an easy-to-understand form their compliance levels. Finally, we describe a prototype of our futuristic
AAL platform using home robots to help people with daily activities. |
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