Ambient Assisted Living Italian Forum 2013
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fourth Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), held in Ancona, Italy, in October 2013. A wide range of issues are covered, and new technological developments are described which will support the a
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Assisted Living Italian Forum 2013
Ambient Assisted Living
Sauro Longhi Pietro Siciliano Michele Germani Andrea Monteriù •
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Editors Sauro Longhi Department of Information Engineering Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona Italy Pietro Siciliano Department of Information Engineering Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR Lecce Italy
Michele Germani Industrial Engineering Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona Italy Andrea Monteriù Information Engineering Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-01118-9 ISBN 978-3-319-01119-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01119-6 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
The concept of ‘‘Ambient Assisted Living’’ (AAL) has become deeply relevant for the present and future challenges. This is strongly motivated by the fact that the annual growth of the older population is significantly higher than that of the total population. For this reason, good aging and AAL activities are the focus of many national and international R&D projects. In this regard, the E
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