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Outdoors Monitoring of Elderly People Assisted by Compass, GPS and Mobile Social Network

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Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living (IWANN 2009)

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We explore the use of mobile social network technology combined with modern mobile phone hardware as a platform for programming applications in the elder care area. An application that covers two use cases for outdoors monitoring and detecting disorientations of the elderly is introduced. The system leverages on standard mobile terminals (Android G1) equipped with GPS and compass devices and on LibreGeoSocial, a mobile social framework we are developing.

This work has been funded in part by Avanza I+D program, under the Mobile Social Network(TSI-020100-2008-528) and OpenHealthAssistant(TSI-020100-2008-66).

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  1. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Pedro de las Heras-Quirós, José Antonio Santos-Cadenas, Raúl Román-López & Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

    Sigeru Omatu

  2. Department of Informatics / CCTC, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Miguel P. Rocha

  3. MAmI Research Lab, University of Castilla-La Mancha,, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Bravo

  4. Department of Informatics, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Florentino Fernández

  5. Grupo de Investigación GICAP, Área de Lenguajes Higher Polytechnic School, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  6. Higher Polytechnic School, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Andrés Bustillo

  7. Department of Informatics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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Calvo-Palomino, R., de las Heras-Quirós, P., Santos-Cadenas, J.A., Román-López, R., Izquierdo-Cortázar, D. (2009). Outdoors Monitoring of Elderly People Assisted by Compass, GPS and Mobile Social Network . In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_122

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