It is of little surprise that falling is often accepted as a natural part of the aging process. In
fact, it is the impact rather than the occurrence of falls in the elderly, which is of most …

The increasing availability of sensors and intelligent objects enables new functionalities and
services. In the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domain, such technologies can be used for …

Systems providing their end-users behavior assistance must be customized to meet those
users' needs and behavior goals. We investigate how it is possible to improve the …

Assistive software becomes more and more important part of our everyday life. As it is not
straightforward to create such a system, the engineering of assistive systems is a topic of …

Among the scenarios for pervasive learning are teleteaching and project work. The former
tries to deliver a lecture to a distributed audience, while the latter tries to enhance the …

In this paper we present a feasibility study regarding the recognition of high level daily living
and care activities. We examine a hybrid discriminative and model based generative …

The dynamics of the actual global context create a growing need for creation of better
knowledge management in organizations. More than ever global markets exercise a bottom …

Many context-aware projects try to develop the next step in human computer interaction,
systems that adapt to a users need and help him to focus on his specific task. Probabilistic …

Within the research field of HCI task models are widely used for model-based development
of interactive systems. Recently introduced approaches applied task models further to model …

Ubiquitous computing aims for the realization of environments that assist users
autonomously and proactively. Therefore smart environment infrastructures need to be able …