User Profiling of People with Disabilities - A Proposal to Pervasively Assess Quality of Life

Eloisa Vargiu, Luigi Ceccaroni, Laia Subirats, Suzanne Martin, Felip Miralles

2013

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses an ongoing work aimed at defining the profile of people with disabilities, i.e., automatically assessing their quality of life, through a sensor-based telemonitoring system. To illustrate how the approach works, a case study is presented and discussed.

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Vargiu E., Ceccaroni L., Subirats L., Martin S. and Miralles F. (2013). User Profiling of People with Disabilities - A Proposal to Pervasively Assess Quality of Life . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-39-6, pages 352-357. DOI: 10.5220/0004330003520357


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart13,
author={Eloisa Vargiu and Luigi Ceccaroni and Laia Subirats and Suzanne Martin and Felip Miralles},
title={User Profiling of People with Disabilities - A Proposal to Pervasively Assess Quality of Life},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={352-357},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004330003520357},
isbn={978-989-8565-39-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - User Profiling of People with Disabilities - A Proposal to Pervasively Assess Quality of Life
SN - 978-989-8565-39-6
AU - Vargiu E.
AU - Ceccaroni L.
AU - Subirats L.
AU - Martin S.
AU - Miralles F.
PY - 2013
SP - 352
EP - 357
DO - 10.5220/0004330003520357