People, sensors, decisions: Customizable and adaptive technologies for assistance in healthcare

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hoey, Jesse ^a   Boutilier, Craig ^b   Poupart, Pascal ^a   Olivier, Patrick ^c   Monk, Andrew ^d   Mihailidis, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEALTH CARE; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL PROCESSING (FOODS);

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COGNITIVE DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS; INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; SOCIAL IMPACT-OF-TECHNOLOGY; STROKE REHABILITATION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84983574265     PISSN: 21606455     EISSN: 21606463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2395123.2395125     Document Type: Article

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