Development of a cell phone-based video streaming system for persons with early stage Alzheimer's disease

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5330-5333

  Donnelly, Mark P ^a   Nugent, Chris D ^a   Craig, David ^b   Passmore, Peter ^b   Mulvenna, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; MHEALTH; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VIDEO STREAMING;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; CELL PHONE; DAILY ACTIVITY; FIELD TRIAL; PERSON WITH DEMENTIAS; WEBCAMS;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; NURSING; REMINDER SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELLULAR PHONE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 61849124726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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