Pervasive Intelligence

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RoboCare: Pervasive Intelligence for the Domestic Care of the Elderly

This article reports the state of advancement of the RoboCare project, which was launched in December 2002 to address the problem of providing assistance to elderly people using a combination of software, robots, intelligent sensors and humans. It addresses the creation of a multi-agent environment in which all these actors cooperate synergistically in order to provide user services. This paper...

A Pervasive Way: Elderly People Falling Detection and Ambient Intelligence

A stairway falling detection prototype is designed to warn when elderly people fall on the stairs and also accumulatively and unobtrusively study elderly people’s walking patterns. With this prototype, we try to demo a new design strategy, a pervasive way, to facilitate developing proper algorithms and living patterns for elderly people at home. Evaluation of the implicit interactions and poten...

Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Ambient Intelligence - Surveillance and Control?

Sowohl im praktischen Diskurs von Bürgerrechtsvertretern und Datenschützern wie auch in theoretisch ausgerichteten Debatten werden Ausdrücke wie Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing und Ambient Intelligence meist negativ konnotiert. Dies hängt damit zusammen, dass diese Technologien der Überwachung (Surveillance) und Kontrolle (Control) dienen – wiederum zwei Ausdrücke, die meist im negati...

Pervasive Business Intelligence: A New Trend in Critical Healthcare

In the field of intensive medicine, presentation of medical information is identified as a major concern for the health professionals, since it can be a great aid when it is necessary to make decisions, of varying gravity, for the patient’s state. The way in which this information is presented, and especially when it is presented, may make it difficult for the intensivists within intense health...