Toward an ecosystem for developing and programming assistive environments

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2489-2504

  Helal, Sumi ^a   Chen, Chao ^a   Kim, Eunju ^a   Bose, Raja ^b   Lee, Choonhwa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aging in place; ambient assisted living; assistive environments; assistive technology; middleware for pervasive spaces; programmable pervasive spaces; smart homes and health telematics; smart spaces; successful aging

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED LIVING; AUTOMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MIDDLEWARE;

AGING IN PLACE; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; PERVASIVE SPACE; PROGRAMMABLE PERVASIVE SPACES; SMART SPACE; SUCCESSFUL AGING; TELEMATICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84864131529     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2200548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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