Ambient Assisted Living

Part I. Technical Assistance for Urban Areas

1. Integration of Stationary and Wearable Support Services for an Actively Assisted Living of Elderly People: Capabilities, Achievements, Limitations, Prospects—A Case Study
Rainer Lutze, Klemens Waldhör

2. QuoVadis—Definition of Requirements and Conception for Interconnected Living in a Quarter for Dementia Patients
Alexander Gerka, Nadine Abmeier, Marie-Luise Schwarz, Stefanie Brinkmann-Gerdes, Marco Eichelberg, Andreas Hein

Part II. Technology for Smart Environments

3. Invisible Human Sensing in Smart Living Environments Using Capacitive Sensors
Andreas Braun, Silvia Rus, Martin Majewski

4. LivingCare—An Autonomously Learning, Human Centered Home Automation System: Collection and Preliminary Analysis of a Large Dataset of Real Living Situations
Ralf Eckert, Sebastian Müller, Sebastian Glende, Alexander Gerka, Andreas Hein, Ralph Welge

5. New Approaches for Localization and Activity Sensing in Smart Environments
Florian Kirchbuchner, Biying Fu, Andreas Braun, Julian Wilmsdorff

6. Technology Supported Geriatric Assessment
Sandra Hellmers, Sebastian Fudickar, Clemens Büse, Lena Dasenbrock, Andrea Heinks, Jürgen M. Bauer, Andreas Hein

Part III. Technology to Support Mobility

7. Gesture Controlled Hospital Beds for Home Care
S. Fudickar, J. Flessner, N. Volkening, E.-E. Steen, M. Isken, A. Hein

8. Assisted Motion Control in Therapy Environments Using Smart Sensor Technology: Challenges and Opportunities
Julia Richter, Christian Wiede, André Apitzsch, Nico Nitzsche, Christiane Lösch, Martin Weigert, Thomas Kronfeld, Stefan Weisleder, Gangolf Hirtz

9. eNav: A Suitable Navigation System for the Disabled
Dženan Džafić, Pierre Schoonbrood, Dominik Franke, Stefan Kowalewski

Part IV. Technical Research for Reside and Living

10. Regulation of Ventilation Systems Based on Psychophysical Principles
J. Flessner, M. Frenken

11. Computer-Based Adaption of Cooking Recipes Integrated in a Speech Dialogue Assistance System
Karen Insa Wolf, Stefan Goetze, Frank Wallhoff

12. Learning Behavioural Routines for Early Detection of Health Changes
Raoul Hoffmann, Axel Steinhage, Christl Lauterbach

13. Enabling an Internet of Things Framework for Ambient Assisted Living
Helmi Ben Hmida, Andreas Braun

14. Standardisation for Mobility-Related Assisted Living Solutions: From Problem Analysis to a Generic Mobility Model
Michael Brach, Armin Bremer, Andreas Kretschmer, Janina Laurila-Dürsch, Sebastian Naumann, Christoph Reiß

Nyckelord: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, R & D/Technology Policy, Aging, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Health Informatics