Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City: 7th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2009, Tours, France, July 1-3, 2009. Proceedings

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by  Laura Cunningham

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Ambient Assistive Health
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7th International Conference
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Tours, France, July 1-3, 2009
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Preface
We are living in a world full of innovations for the elderly and people with spe-
cial needs to use smart assistive technologies and smart homes to more easily
perform activities of daily living, continue social participation, engage in enter-
tainment and leisure activities, and to enjoy living independently. These inno-
vations are inspired by new technologies leveraging all aspects of ambient and
pervasive intelligence with related theories,technologies,methods, applications,
and services on ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI, universal, mobile, embedded, wear-
able, augmented, invisible, hidden, context-aware, calm, amorphous, sentient,
proactive, post PC, everyday, autonomic computing from engineering, business
andorganizationalperspectives.Inthe fieldofsmarthomesandhealthtelemat-
ics, significantresearchis underway to enable ageing and disabled people to use
smart assistive technologies and smart homes to foster independent living and
to offer them an enhanced quality of life.
A smart home is a vision of the future where computers and computing de-
vices will be available naturally and unobtrusively anywhere, anytime, and by
different means in our daily living, working, learning, business, and infotain-
mentenvironments.Suchavisionopenstremendousopportunitiesfornumerous
novelservices/applicationsthat are more immersive,more intelligent, and more
interactive in both real and cyber spaces.
Initiated in 2003, the International Conference on Smart Homes and Health
Telematics (ICOST) has become the premier forum for researchers, scientists,
students,professionals,andpractionerstodiscussandexchangeinformationand
ideas on the current advances in enabling technologies coupled with evolving
care paradigms to allow the development of novel applications and services for
improving the quality of life for ageing and disabled people both inside and
outside of their homes. Each year ICOST has a specific theme. The theme of
ICOST 2003 was “Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities and Elderly
People.”The theme for ICOST 2004was “Towardsa Human-Friendly Assistive
Environment.”ICOST2005focusedon“FromSmartHomestoSmartCare.”For
ICOST2006,itwas“SmartHomesandBeyond”andICOST2007hadthetheme
of “Pervasive Computing Perspectives for Quality of Life Enhancement.” Last
year the theme of ICOST 2008 was “Gerontechnology: Enhancing the Quality
of Life for Rural Elders.”
Thisyeartheconferencewasorganizedaroundthemajorthemeof“Ambient
Assistive Health andWellness Managementin the Heartofthe City” seeking to
addressthelatestapproachesandtechnicalsolutionsintheareaofsmarthomes,
health telematics, and emerging enabling technologies with a special emphasis
on presenting the latest results in the successes of real deployment of systems
and services.
VI Preface
Wearepleasedtopresent,gatheredintheseproceedings,thepaperspresented
in the conference, which were stringently refereed and carefully selected by a
Program Committee of 44 internationally renowned researchers together with
the help of 12 external expert reviewers. We would like to thank the members
of the ProgramCommittee, the external reviewers,and the authors for shaping
this conference.
Weareverygratefultothescientificcommitteemembersfortheirdedication
to improvingthe scientific quality andresearchvalue ofICOST 2009.We would
also like to thank the Publicity Chairs, Industry Liaison Chairs, and the Local
Organizing Committee for the successful organizationof an internationally rep-
utable event. We are very grateful that all these people and others behind the
scenes accepted to put their international academic and professionalexperience
as well as their reputation of excellence at the service of the success of this in-
ternational event. We hope that we succeeded in disseminating new ideas and
results that stem from the presentations and discussions.
July 2009 Mounir Mokhtari
Ismail Khalil
J´er´emyBauchet
Daqing Zhang
Chris Nugent
Organization
General Co-chairs
Mounir Mokhtari Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis,
France / CNRS-IPAL (UMI 2955), Singapore
Daqing Zhang Institut TELECOM/TELECOMSudParis,
France
Chris Nugent University of Ulster, UK
Scientific Committee
Members Z. Zenn Bien, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Korea
Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Sylvain Giroux, Universit´e de Sherbrooke,Canada
Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Mounir Mokhtari, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis,
France / CNRS-IPAL (UMI 2955), Singapore
Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, UK
Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan
Tatsuya Yamazaki, Chair, National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan
Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
DaqingZhang,InstitutTELECOM/TELECOMSudParis,France
Program Committee
Chair Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Members Bessam Abdulrazak, Universit´e de Sherbrooke,Canada
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK
Jit Biswas, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Keith C.C. Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK
Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA
RoseMarieDroes,VUUniversityMedicalCenter,TheNetherlands
Mohammed Feki, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,
Japan
Nick Hine, University of Dundee, UK
Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait
VIII Organization
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Zo´e Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA
Choonhwa Lee, Hanyang University, Korea
Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications
Research Institute), Korea
JianHua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni,DIST - University of Genova, Italy
Katsunori Matsuoka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan
Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK
Michael McTear, University of Ulster, UK
Abdallah M’hamed, Institut TELECOM/TELECOMSudParis,
France
Taketoshi Mori, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hongbo Ni, Northwestern PolytechnicalUniversity, China
Venet Osmani, CREATE-NET, Italy
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Kwang-Hyun Park, KwangwoonUniversity, Korea
Aljosa Pasic, Atos Origin, Spain
H´el`ene Pigot, Universit´e de Sherbrooke, Canada
Gilles Privat, Orange Labs, France
Yasuyuki Shimada, Kumamoto National College of Technology,
Japan
Rich Simpson, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Andrew Sixsmith, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Won-Kyung Song, National Rehabilitation Center, Korea
Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan
Manfred Wojciechowski, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and
System Engineering (ISST), Germany
Woontack Woo, GIST, Korea
Wolfram W, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Hajime Yamada, Toyo University, Japan
Jie (Jessie) Yin, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Bosheng Zhou, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Organizing Committee
Chair J´er´emyBauchet,InstitutTELECOM/TELECOMSudParis,
France
Publicity SergioGuillen,ITACA,UniversidadPolitecnicadeValencia,
Spain
Organization IX
Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Central Police University, Taiwan
Bessam Abdulrazak, Universit´e de Sherbrooke, Canada
Industry Liaison Daby Sow, IBM Watson Lab, USA
Mahmoud Ghorbel, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Administrative Franc¸oise Abad, TELECOM SudParis, France
and Financial B´eatrice Nouilletas, TELECOM SudParis, France
Danielle Paquin, TELECOM SudParis, France
Communication Sandrine Bourguer,TELECOM SudParis, France
Muriele Gadaut, TELECOM SudParis, France
Rahma Sadki, TELECOM SudParis, France
Members Farah Arab, TELECOM SudParis, France
Kejun Du, TELECOM SudParis, France
Charles Gouin-Vallerand, TELECOM SudParis, France
MossaabHariz, TELECOM SudParis, France
Olivier Meulle, TELECOM SudParis, France
Abdallah MHamed, TELECOM SudParis, France
St´ephane Renouard, TELECOM SudParis, France
C´ecile Sansiquet, TELECOM SudParis, France
Lin Sun, TELECOM SudParis, France
Chantal Vallet, TELECOM SudParis, France
Additional Reviewers of Technical Papers
Members Asier Aztiria, University of Ulster, UK
Sanne Bentvelzen, VU University Medical Center,
The Netherlands
Ans Bouman, VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Rachid Kadouche, Universit´e de Sherbrooke,Canada
Franka Meiland, VU University Medical Center,
The Netherlands
Hua Ming, Iowa State University, USA
Simantra Mitra, Iowa State University, USA
Andrs Mun˜oz Ortega, University of Ulster, UK
Hiroshi Noguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Katsunori Oyama, Iowa State University, USA
Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Hen-I Yang, University of Florida, USA
Conference Hosted by:
Institut TELECOM / TELECOM SudParis, Paris, France
CNRS-IPAL (UMI 2955), Singapore
University of Ulster, UK
Table of Contents
Cognitive Assistance and Chronic Diseases
Management
Computer-Based Assessment of Bradykinesia, Akinesia and Rigidity in
Parkinson’s Disease .............................................. 1
Laura Cunningham, Chris Nugent, George Moore,
Dewar Finlay, and David Craig
An Assistive Computerized System for Children with Intellectual and
Learning Disabilities ............................................. 9
Jihad M. ALJa’am, Samir ElSeoud, Arthur Edwards,
M. Garcia Ruiz, and Ali Jaoua
Design Challenges for Mobile Assistive Technologies Applied to People
with Cognitive Impairments ....................................... 17
Andr´ee-Anne Boisvert, Luc Paquette, H´el`ene Pigot, and
Sylvain Giroux
Mapping User Needs to Smartphone Services for Persons with Chronic
Disease ......................................................... 25
Nicola Armstrong, Chris Nugent, George Moore, and Dewar Finlay
Trial Results of a Novel Cardiac Rhythm Management System Using
Smart Phones and Wireless ECG Sensors ........................... 32
Peter Leijdekkers, Valerie Gay, and Edward Barin
Ambient Living Systems
Participatory Medicine: Leveraging Social Networks in Telehealth
Solutions ....................................................... 40
Mark Weitzel, Andy Smith, Duckki Lee, Scott de Deugd, and
Sumi Helal
A Case Study of an Ambient Living and Wellness Management Health
Care Model in Australia .......................................... 48
Jeffrey Soar, Anne Livingstone, and Szu-Yao Wang
Market Potential for Ambient Assisted Living Technology: The Case of
Canada......................................................... 57
Robert Savage, Yongjie Yon, Michael Campo, Ashleigh Wilson,
Ravin Kahlon, and Andrew Sixsmith