Recent Advances in Ambient Assisted Living - Bridging Assistive Technologies, e-Health and Personalized Health Care |
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| Editor:
| Chen, Wei
Augusto, Jusun Carlos
Seoane, Fernando |
| Series title: | Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61499-596-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | IOS Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $109.00 |
Book Description:
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Recent advances in the field of ambient assistive living have addressed the integration of assistive technologies, e-health and personalized healthcare with the aim of enabling improved social experience as well as achieving better health outcomes.This book focuses on ambient assisted living systems and services for healthcare, a multi-disciplinary field encompassing areas such as electrical engineering, computer science, user-centered design and medicine. The book is divided into...
More DescriptionRecent advances in the field of ambient assistive living have addressed the integration of assistive technologies, e-health and personalized healthcare with the aim of enabling improved social experience as well as achieving better health outcomes.This book focuses on ambient assisted living systems and services for healthcare, a multi-disciplinary field encompassing areas such as electrical engineering, computer science, user-centered design and medicine. The book is divided into three parts: personalized healthcare monitoring technologies; ICT for ambient assistive living; and healing environments. The topics covered include sensor systems, wearable technologies, patient monitoring, home monitoring, personalized healthcare, user-centered design, ethical challenges and clinical evaluation.Providing an overview of new developments in e-health and personalized healthcare, the book will be of interest to engineers, designers and others working in the healthcare industry, and to medical practitioners.