Background Older people generally prefer to continue living in their own homes rather than
move into residential age care institutions. Assistive technologies and sensors in the home …

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field aiming at exploiting
information and communication technologies in personal healthcare and telehealth systems …

New technology and smart homes have the potential to improve quality of life, safety, and
care for older people. However, we do not yet know how older people's perceptions of these …

Home is a person's castle, a private and protected space. Internet-connected devices such
as locks, cameras, and speakers might make a home" smarter" but also raise privacy issues …

Background The world is experiencing a dramatic increase in the aging population,
challenging the sustainability of traditional care models that have relied on in-person …

Lack of physical activity is a severe health concern in the United States with fewer than half
of all Americans meeting the recommended weekly physical activity guidelines. Although …

In this study two currently relevant aspects of using medical assistive technologies were
addressed—security and privacy. In a two-step empirical approach that used focus groups …

Recommender systems are a classical example for machine learning applications, however,
they have not yet been used extensively in health informatics and medical scenarios. We …

This paper focuses on the research on the state of the art for sensor fusion techniques,
applied to the sensors embedded in mobile devices, as a means to help identify the mobile …

Purpose The paper addresses various cyber threats and their effects on the internet. A
review of the literature on intrusion detection systems (IDSs) as a means of mitigating …