Interactive games to improve quality of life for the elderly: Towards integration into a WSN monitoring system

2nd International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2010, Includes MLMB 2010; BUSMMed 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 106-112

  Lawrence, Elaine ^a   Sax, Christian ^a   Navarro, Karla Felix ^a   Qiao, Mu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health; Interactive games; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AGED CARE; HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM; INTERACTIVE GAMES; MENTAL HEALTH; MONITORING SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE;

HEALTH; MONITORING; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELEMEDICINE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77952210852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eTELEMED.2010.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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