Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities [electronic resource] : 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings / edited by Bessam Abdulrazak, Sylvain Giroux, Bruno Bouchard, Hélène Pigot, Mounir Mokhtari.
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 6719Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011Description: XVII, 327 p. 123 illus., 88 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783642215353
- Computer science
- Special purpose computers
- User interfaces (Computer systems)
- Artificial intelligence
- Image processing
- Pattern recognition
- Computer Science
- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems
- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
- Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Pattern Recognition
- 004.6 23
- TK7874.6

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and 8 student papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart home and village; health telematics and healthcare technology; wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology; and medical health telematics and healthcare technology.