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A set of designer guidelines from the European Union offers the first step in building privacy-aware systems.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Supporting Caregivers in Nursing Homes for Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Technological Approach to Overnight Supervision -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context -- 3 Design and Deployment -- 4 Field Trial -- 4.1 Experimental Set-up -- 4.2 Evaluation Survey -- 5 Data Analysis -- 5.1 Context Characterization -- 5.2 Data Representation and Analysis -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Monitoring Activities of Daily Living Using Audio Analysis and a RaspberryPI: A Use Case on Bathroom Activity Monitoring -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Proposed Method -- 2.1 Overall Architecture -- 2.2 System Calibration -- 2.3 Audio Event Recognition -- 3 Bathroom Use Case and Evaluation -- 3.1 Use Case and Motivation -- 3.2 Dataset -- 3.3 Experimental Evaluation -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Assessing Ehealth Readiness Within the Libyan National Health Service by Carrying Out Research Case ... -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Theory of Ehealth Readiness Assessments -- 3 Methods -- 3.1 Research Methods and Sample Size -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Results of the Questionnaire -- 4.1.1 Healthcare Staff Availability Within Urban and Rural Healthcare Institutions -- 4.1.2 ICT Access in Urban and Rural Healthcare Institutions -- 4.2 Results of the Group Interviews -- 4.2.1 Access to Ehealth Solutions in Urban and Rural Healthcare Institutions -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 Availability of Medical Staff in Urban and Rural Healthcare Institutions -- 5.2 The Availability of ICT in Urban and Rural Healthcare Institutions -- 6 Ehealth Maturity Diagram (EMD) -- 7 Strategy for Ehealth in the LNHS -- 8 The Study's Limitations -- 9 Suggested Solutions for Overcoming Barriers for the LNHS -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Improving Human Motion Identification Using Motion Dependent Classification -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The FrailSafe Concept.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Invited Papers -- The Community Assessment of Risk and Treatment Strategies (CARTS): An Integrated Care Pathway to Manage Frailty and Functional Decline in Community Dwelling Older Adults -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Community Assessment of Risk and Treatment Strategies (CARTS) -- 3 Impact of the CARTS Programme -- 3.1 Older Adults -- 3.2 Healthcare Providers -- 3.3 Healthcare Systems -- 4 External Validation of the CARTS ICP -- 4.1 Portugal -- 4.2 Spain -- 4.3 Australia -- 5 Challenges and Solutions for Scaling-up CARTS -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Future Development of the CARTS Project -- References -- Advancing Ambient Assisted Living with Caution -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scenario -- 3 State of the Art in Ambient Assisted Living -- 3.1 Ambient Assisted Living -- 3.2 Assisted Healthcare -- 3.3 Medication Support -- 4 On the Horizon -- 4.1 Potential Problems -- 4.2 Potential Solutions -- 4.3 Tradeoffs -- 4.4 Legal Aspects to Consider -- 5 One Possible Future -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Ambient Assisted Living -- Ambient Technology to Support Elderly People in Outdoor Risk Situations -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Major Risks in Outdoor Environment -- 3.1 Fall -- 3.2 Wandering and Disorientation -- 3.3 Health Issues -- 3.4 Traffic Accidents Risk -- 3.5 Fatigue Risk -- 3.6 Mistreatment, Abuse and Criminal Actions -- 3.7 Psychological Related Risks -- 4 Assistive Technologies for Major Outdoor Risks -- 4.1 Assistive Technology for Fall Risk -- 4.2 Assistive Technology for Wandering Risk -- 4.3 Assistive Technology for Health Issues (M-Health) -- 4.4 Assistive Technologies for Other Risks in Outdoor Environment -- 4.4.1 AT for Traffic Accidents -- 4.4.2 AT for Fatigue Risk -- 4.4.3 AT for Crime Risk -- 4.4.4 AT for Psychological Related Risks.

This paper describes first steps in the design process of an open and integrative test bed for studying the acceptance of Ambient Assisted Living technologies. The research work reported in this paper was conducted within the project "eHealth - Enhancing Mobility with Aging", an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments. In the first part of the paper, several formative studies are described, which were conducted in order to analyze personal and medical needs of potential end users, as well as the habits they have in dealing with their illnesses. The insights gained in these studies were used to define fundamental requirements for the design of an intelligent home environment. The second part of the paper shows how the concept was realized and presents several technical prototypes of intelligent home components.

The paper describes the program 'eHealth – Enhancing Mobility with Aging', an interdisciplinary research project at RWTH Aachen University. The program started in January 2009 as part of the Human Technology Centre, a newly established project house, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. The program aims at designing adaptive immersive interfaces for personal healthcare systems and develops novel, integrative prototypes for the design of user-centered healthcare systems. This includes new concepts of electronic monitoring systems within ambient living environments, suited to support persons individually (according to user profiles), adaptively (according to the course of disease) and sensitively (according to living conditions).