Ambient Assisted Living

A low-cost sensor for real-time monitoring of indoor thermal comfort for ambient assisted living.- A novel device for contactless detection of small body movements dedicated to people with severe mobility impairments.- Improved UWB Radar Signal Processing for the Extraction of Vital Parameters.- Near Field Communication technology for AAL.- Remote measurement of the respiration by electromagnetic sensing.- Robot Interface Design of domestic and condominium robot for ageing population.- Autonomous Assistive Robot for Respiratory Rate Detection and Tracking.- Tele presence Robot at Home: A Long-term Case Study.- A Multi-Agent Expert System Simulation for Ambient Assisted Living: the Virtual Carer Experience.- Expert System for Wearable Fall Detector.- Quality of Kinect Depth Information for Passive Posture Monitoring.- A Wearable Multi-Sensors Device for AAL Environment.- RGBD sensors for human activity detection in AAL environments.- MyCmon - Cloud-Based Smart Home Monitoring For Elderly People And People With Disabilities.- Cognitive Home Rehabilitation in Alzheimer's Disease Patients by a Virtual Personal Trainer.- Experimentation of an integrated system of services and AAL solutions for Alzheimer's Disease patients and their caregivers in Marche: The UP-TECH project.- Virtual reality: a new rehabilitative approach in neurological disorders.- Can the current mobile technology help for medical Assistance? The case of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson Disease.- Electromagnetic sensing of obstacles for visually impaired users.- Multi-agent Simulation Model for Evacuation of Care Homes and Hospitals for Elderly and People with Disabilities in Motion.- An inertial and QR code landmarks-based navigation system for impaired wheelchair users.- Towards an impact assessment framework for ICT-based systems supporting older people: Making evaluation comprehensive through appropriate concepts and metrics.- Brain.me: a Low-Cost Brain Computer Interface for AALApplications.- A Speech

Sauro Longhi is Full Professor of Automation Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche and Director of the Information Engineering Department. His main research interests are the model based control, fault diagnosis , unmanned systems and renewable energy. He published more than 300 papers on international journal and conferences. He was the CEO of a spin-off company focused on green energy.

Pietro Siciliano is currently director of Research at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM-CNR) at CNR, where he has been working from many years in the field of Sensors, MEMS, Microsystems, being in charge of the Sensors and Microsystems group. He is member of the Steering Committee of AISEM, the Italian Association on Sensors and Microsystems. He is author of about 250 scientific papers.