Market potential for ambient assisted living technology: The case of canada

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5597 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 57-65

  Savage, Robert ^a   Yon, Yongjie ^a   Campo, Michael ^a   Wilson, Ashleigh ^a   Kahlon, Ravin ^a   Sixsmith, Andrew ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging in place; Gerontechnology; Health monitoring; Smart homes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AGING IN PLACE; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING (AAL); ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; GERONTECHNOLOGY; HEALTH MONITORING; SMART HOMES;

ASSISTED LIVING;

EID: 70350413210     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02868-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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