TeleCARE: Collaborative virtual elderly support communities

L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh

2004

Abstract

The growing percentage of elderly population imposes an urgent need to develop new approaches to care provision. Integration of a number of technologies such as multi-agent systems, federated information management, safe communications, hypermedia interfaces, rich sensorial environments, and increased intelligence in home appliances represents an important enabling factor for the design and development of virtual elderly support community environments. In this paper, a platform based on mobile agents combined with federated information management mechanisms is introduced as a flexible infrastructure on top of which specialized care services are built.

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in Harvard Style

M. Camarinha-Matos L. and Afsarmanesh H. (2004). TeleCARE: Collaborative virtual elderly support communities . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care - Volume 1: TELECARE, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-10-4, pages 1-12. DOI: 10.5220/0002677300010012


in Bibtex Style

@conference{telecare04,
author={L. M. Camarinha-Matos and H. Afsarmanesh},
title={TeleCARE: Collaborative virtual elderly support communities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care - Volume 1: TELECARE, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={1-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002677300010012},
isbn={972-8865-10-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care - Volume 1: TELECARE, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - TeleCARE: Collaborative virtual elderly support communities
SN - 972-8865-10-4
AU - M. Camarinha-Matos L.
AU - Afsarmanesh H.
PY - 2004
SP - 1
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0002677300010012