A caregiver support platform within the scope of an Ambient Assisted Living ecosystem

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 5654-5676

  Costa, Angelo ^a   Novais, Paulo ^a   Simoes, Ricardo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

Author keywords

AAL4ALL; Active ageing; Ambient assisted living; Ambient intelligence; Artificial intelligence; e health; Intelligent environments

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AAL4ALL; ACTIVE AGEING; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; EHEALTH; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84896463256     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140305654     Document Type: Article

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