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Technological Solution for Independent Living of Intellectual Disabled People

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

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This work in progress presents a technological solution which lets some disabled people live independently in their own home. The objective is to develop a technical assistance that supports to them in the control of schedules, supervision of routes to the work place, warnings and automatic alarms generation. In addition, it will allow that people to communicate by telephone with the person of the family or Association which supervises to them. The definition of the specifications has been carried out in multidisciplinary form with technicians, psychologists, instructors and relatives. The tests have been developed in houses guarded by the Foundation Syndrome of Down of the Basque Country and by the department of Independent Life of this Foundation.

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  1. Departamento de Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de Deusto, Spain

    Ibon Ruiz, Begoña García & Amaia Méndez

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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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Ruiz, I., García, B., Méndez, A. (2009). Technological Solution for Independent Living of Intellectual Disabled People. 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_130

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