Data-centric support of a smart walker in a ubiquitous-computing environment

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Health Care and Assisted Living Environments, HealthNet'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chen, Hao ^a   Black, James P ^a   Khan, Omar Zia ^a   Jamshaid, Kamran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data centric; Health care; Publish subscribe; Ubiquitous computing; Walker

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; COGNITIVE MONITORING; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA-CENTRIC; DATA-CENTRIC APPROACHES; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; PUBLISH SUBSCRIBE; SENSORS AND ACTUATORS; SMART ENVIRONMENT; USER MOBILITY; WALKER;

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; MIDDLEWARE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 70349101941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1515747.1515768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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