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Elderly people need regular healthcare services and several times are dependent of physicians' personal attendance. This dependence rises several issues to elders, such as the need to travel and mobility support. Mobile Health (m-Health) services and applications offer good healthcare solutions that can be used indoor or in mobility environments. This paper presents an ambient assisted living (AAL)...
Ambient assisted living (AAL) delivers IT solutions that aim to facilitate and improve lives of the disabled, elderly, and chronically ill people. Mobility is a key issue for elderly people because their physical activity, in general, improves their quality of life and keep health status. Then, this paper presents an AAL framework for caregivers and elderly people that allow them to maintain an active...
The proliferation of mobile applications for smartphones has been based on the presence of a data connection between those devices and the Internet. Therefore, users of entry level mobile phones as well as users who cannot afford a data plan are excluded from the current dynamics of mobile applications consumption. A possible approach to include those users is the usage of SMS as the communication...
Mobile Health (m-Health) systems include the use of mobile devices and applications that interact with patients and caretakers. However, mobile devices have several constraints (such as, processor, energy, and storage resource limitations), affecting the quality of service and user experience. This paper proposes a novel cooperation strategy for m-Health services and applications. This contribution...
Some activities in presential meetings require the anonymous participation while others demand publicity. This paper investigates the problem of keeping the anonymity of participantes in colocated environments, which use mobile groupware. The mobile groupware both allows accomplishing the activites and keeps the anonymity. For the study, an experiment where participants are colocated was undertaken,...
Automation is the process of having a machine or machines to accomplish tasks hitherto performed wholly or partly by humans. Home automation concerns automating the domestic tasks. There are number of applications addressing home automation and monitoring involving infrared/Bluetooth or Ethernet over Power techniques in remote controls. But there is no such publication on providing facility to control...
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