A model of quantum information processing is proposed for applications in health-care and assistive environments. It uses implanted nano-chips which could incorporate quantum computing technology and make use of the advantages of high computing and ...

Loosing motor activity due to impaired or damaged nerves or muscles affects millions of people world-wide. The resulting lack of mobility and/or impaired communication bears enormous personal, economical and social costs. While several assistive ...

New mobile robotic devices are conquering homes. From automatic shades to motorized vacuum cleaning units, advanced technologies are progressively being introduced into real domestic home environments. Technology is no longer being introduced to simply ...

Homecare telematics can be regarded as one of the fastest growing healthcare delivery sectors in the developed world and it is further reinforced as healthcare delivery paradigm is shifting from doctor and hospital-centered towards a new model where the ...

This paper describes the efforts of the city of Schwechat in creating a local information society by supporting the Schwechat Living Lab for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies and services. Local authorities, social service providers, elderly ...

Arrhythmia is one of the most difficult problems in Cardiology and especially in Pediatric Cardiology. In this study, we present a mobile health (m-Health) system that will be used for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac ...

This paper describes an interdisciplinary, user-centered approach to the design of healthcare technologies, involving clinicians, therapists, developers, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Health and Social Care researchers. Our starting point has ...

The increasing need to access information everywhere and at any time leads us to believe that future user interfaces, through which users interact with pervasive computing systems, must address both device and modality independence. The pervasive ...

In Italy, the service of Pediatric oncology is very centralized and granted by high-specialized medical structures. In particular, in the Italian Regione Campania there are just few of such medical centers that, in case of room availability, take care ...

Assistive environments employ multiple types of devices to monitor human actions and identify critical events for physical safety. Some of the devices must be wireless in order to be nonintrusive. This introduces the problem of authenticating these ...

Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise involving many individuals and organizations that coordinate their efforts toward promoting quality and efficient delivery of healthcare. In cases where healthcare delivery is intended to be ...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims to enhance quality of life of elder and impaired people. Thanks to the advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and medical technologies, it is now possible to support new home healthcare services to ...

This paper describes a personalised rehabilitation application using a smart phone (PDA) and wireless (bio) sensors. It instructs and motivates patients to follow their exercise programme and keeps track of their progress. It also monitors the relevant ...

The paper presents the concept and an initial implementation of a patient status awareness system that may be used for patient activity interpretation and emergency recognition in cases like elder falls. The system utilizes audio and video data captured ...

Ubiquitous Computing has the main goal of building computing systems that support and facilitate the daily lives of users, but being the least intrusive possible. There are many technological advances reported in literature, but the current scenario is ...

Music listening is an important activity for many people. Advances in technology have made possible the creation of music collections with thousands of songs in portable music players. Navigating these large music collections is challenging especially ...