The Smart Condo: Visualizing independent living environments in a virtual world

2009 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - Pervasive Health 2009, PCTHealth 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Boers, Nicholas M ^a   Chodos, David ^a   Huang, Jianzhao ^a   Gburzyński, Pawel ^a   Nikolaidis, Ioanis ^a   Stroulia, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED LIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGHER ORDER; INDEPENDENT LIVING; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70350784178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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