Smart technologies in healthcare

✍ Scribed by Bruno Bouchard

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Assistive technologies for the old and people with disabilities is now a very active field of research. It also constitutes a very profitable market (expected to reach US $60 billion p.a. by 2018). The book covers key aspects of this important field and provides guidelines for developing assistive technologies in smart environments. The book also presents the new paradigm of open innovation used by the most prolific research teams around the world. The latest developments in the field are given. Overall this book will be a reference for researchers, practitioners and engineers.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1. Ambient Smart Assistive Technologies
Chapter 2. Challenges in Developing Smart Homes
Chapter 3. Pervasive Computing and Ambient Physiological
Chapter 4. Designing Formally-controlled Smart Home Systems for People with Disabilities
Chapter 5. Context-Aware Service Provision in Ambient Intelligence
Chapter 6. Applying Data Mining in Smart Home
Chapter 7. Preliminary Evaluation of a Digital Diary for Elder People in Nursing Homes

✦ Subjects

Medical innovations.;Medical instruments and apparatus -- Technological innovations.;Self-help devices for people with disabilities.;Biomedical Technology.;HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism;HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference;MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine;MEDICAL / Atlases;MEDICAL / Essays;MEDICAL / Family & General Practice;MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine;MEDICAL / Osteopathy