This paper defines the research area of socially assistive robotics, focusing on assisting
people through social interaction. While much attention has been paid to robots that provide …

Elderly in-home assistance (EHA) has traditionally been tackled by human caregivers to
equip the elderly with homecare assistance in their daily living. The emerging ambience …

Technological advances and societal changes in recent years have contributed to a shift in
traditional care models and in the relationship between patients and their doctors/carers …

For this volume, we selected 10 articles we found groundbreaking for their innovative
contribution to the field of human-machine communication (HMC). This field becomes …

The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades
the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This …

Healthcare professionals, working in hospitals experience a high level of mobility due to
their need for accessing patients' clinical records, medical devices distributed throughout the …

Web service orchestration engines need to be more open to enable the addition of new
features into service-based applications. In this paper, we illustrate how, in a BPEL engine …

Many disabled people use electric wheelchairs (EWs) in their daily lives. EWs take a
considerable amount of time to charge and are less efficient in high-power-demand …

The goal of ambient assisted living (AAL) is to help and support elderly persons to manage
everyday activities using intelligent and pervasive computing technologies. One of the main …

In this chapter we focus on the development of an intelligent pedestrian mobility aid for the
elders that we call i-Walker. The target population includes, but is not limited to, persons with …