Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good : Second International Conference, GOODTECHS 2016, Venice, Italy, November 30 December 1, 2016, Proceedings /

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second EAI international Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, GOODTECHS 2016, held in Venice, Italy, November 30 December 1, 2016. The 38 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers ref...

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Group Author: Gaggi, Ombretta; Manzoni, Pietro; Palazzi, Claudio; Bujari, Armir; Marquez-Barja, Johann M
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 195
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61949-1
Summary: This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second EAI international Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, GOODTECHS 2016, held in Venice, Italy, November 30 December 1, 2016. The 38 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers reflect the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. A social good can be understood as a service that benefits a large number of people in a most possible way. Some classic examples are healthcare, safety, environment, democracy,
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XVI, 368 pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319619491
Index Number: QA76
CLC: TP3
Contents: Indoor Activity Monitoring for Mutual Reassurance -- IoT-Based Health Monitoring system for Active and Assisted Living -- DrivingStyles: Assessing the Correlation of Driving Behavior with Heart Rate Changes -- Understanding needs, identifying opportunities: ICT in the view of Universal Design -- Microservice Architecture Use Case for Persons with Disabilities -- Performance Comparison of H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC and VP9 Encoders in Video Dissemination over VANETs -- PIR Probability Model for a Cost/Reliability Tradeoff Unobtrusive Indoor Monitoring System -- Cultural Heritage and Disability: Ca