Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telematics, ICOST 2009, held in Tours, France, in July 2009. The 27 revised full papers and 20 short papers presented were carefully revi

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Mounir Mokhtari Ismail Khalil Jérémy Bauchet Daqing Zhang Chris Nugent (Eds.)

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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Volume Editors Mounir Mokhtari Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France and CNRS IPAL Singapore (UMI 2955) Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R A-Star) 1 Fusionnopolis way 21-01, Singapore 138632 E-mail: [email protected] Jérémy Bauchet Daqing Zhang Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, Handicom Lab. 9, rue Charles Fourier, 91011 Evry Cedex, France E-mail: {jeremy.bauchet, daqing.zhang}@it-sudparis.eu Ismail Khalil Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Telecooperation Altenberger Strasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Chris Nugent University of Ulster at Jordanstown, School of Computing and Mathematics Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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