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The fast growth of the IoT and the unlimited possibilities in terms of applications and processing brought forth by the 5G which is around the corner is making IoT an active part of the activity of daily living. Those massive architectures become ...

We aim to facilitate the daily-life activities of frail or elderly people in collaboration with mobile assistive robots through the means of a digital twin-powered smart home. Being able to quickly and efficiently produce a digital twin of the ...

Formal method techniques are used to model complex systems as mathematical entities. By building mathematical rigorous models of IoT design patterns, it is possible to verify their properties in a thorough fashion. In this paper, we propose a ...

The rapid advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) has reshaped the industrial system, agricultural system, healthcare systems, and even our daily livelihoods, as the number of IoT applications is surging in these fields. Still, numerous ...

In the literature, a wide number of annotation systems in the e-health sector have been implemented. These systems are distinguished by a number of aspects. In fact, each of these systems is based on a different paradigm, resulting in a jumbled ...

With the rise of the digital age, life has become a lot easier for the vast majority of the population. However, the ever-increasing elderly population has suffered, especially in countries like Pakistan, where limited accessibility to technology, ...

This study evaluated a smart technology intervention in the home as a support for individuals with severe mental illness. This study recruited 13 participants in a variety of community-based homes. Participants were offered a smartphone, a ...

Mobility is essential for older adults to keep a good level of socialization, health and well-being. Still, aging is often accompanied by multiple mobility-related challenges. Hence, these mobility limitations make travel and use of public ...

Patients discharged from hospitals following the onset of an acute illness or injury rendered with disabling conditions require systematic medical-based and rehabilitation-focused sports and exercise programs accessible in their communities. This ...

Building Energy Management (BEM) and monitoring systems should not only consider HVAC systems and building physics but also human behaviors. These systems could provide information and advice to occupants about the significance of their practices ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has flooded a vast amount of information into the world. To help control this situation, good utilization of the overflow in data is required. However, data come in different forms, posing numerous challenges in subsequent ...

The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on the world’s healthcare infrastructure as well as its social, economic, and psychological well-being. In particular, Italy’s unexpectedly high COVID-19 case and death rate from March to June, 2020, captured ...

The coronavirus known as COVID-19 is the topic of the hour all over the world. This virus has invaded the world with its invariants, which are characterized by their rapid spread. COVID-19 has impacted the health of people and the economy of ...

For medical treatments, pain is often measured by self-report. However, the current subjective pain assessment highly depends on the patient’s response and is therefore unreliable. In this paper, we propose a physiological-signals-based objective ...

To improve the QoL of the elderly, it is essential to predict their stress states. In general, the stress state varies from day to day or time to time depending on what activities are performed and how long/strong. However, most existing studies ...

This study is preliminary research to develop a smart cradle for women with spinal cord injury. The purpose of this study was to investigate the needs for improvement of the product and important factors related to product development. A focus ...

The wheelchair cushion is one of the intervention methods for preventing pressure ulcers in people with spinal cord injuries. Recently, a customized wheelchair cushion along with off-loading technology that distributes pressure by removing the ...

Some diseases are characterized by persistent deficits in brain activity. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. It appears in early childhood and evolves throughout life and needs to be detected early to accelerate the ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has quickly established itself as the reference imaging tool for the management of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS), both for the diagnosis and the follow-up of the evolution and evaluation of the ...

As the number of people with disabilities continues to increase, difficulties in dressing activities for people with disabilities are also increasing. However, the currently available clothing for the disabled do not satisfy their functional and ...

With life expectancy growing rapidly over the past century, societies are being increasingly faced with a need to find smart living solutions for elderly care and active ageing. The e-VITA project, which is a joint European (H2020) and Japanese (...

Smart Home Technology (SHT) as assistive technology (AT) is becoming an important active research field in the field of rehabilitation. For this purpose, Home Modification (HM) is one of the most common ways to improve the quality of life of the ...