Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities 9th

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with  16 short papers and 8 stu

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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 TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Bessam Abdulrazak Sylvain Giroux Bruno Bouchard Hélène Pigot Mounir Mokhtari (Eds.)

Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011 Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Bessam Abdulrazak Sylvain Giroux Hélène Pigot Université de Sherbrooke 2500 boulevard de l’Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 E-mail: {bessam.abdulrazak, sylvain.giroux, helene.pigot}@usherbrooke.ca Bruno Bouchard Université de Québec à Chicoutimi 555, boulevard de l’Université, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada, G7H 2B1 E-mail: [email protected] Mounir Mokhtari Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France and CNRS IPAL (UMI 2955), Singapore Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R A-Star) 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01, Singapore 138632 E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-21534-6 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21535-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011928708 CR Subject Classification (1998): C.3, C.2, I.2, H.4, H.5, I.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI

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